barricade

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy

   They stormed the barricade.

2. 2
   verb

   to block off with barricades

   The students barricaded themselves into the dean's office.

3. 3
   verb

   to prevent access to by barricading

   The street where the President lives is always barricaded.

4. 4
   verb

   to render unsuitable for passage

   The protesters barricaded the street.

The noun is borrowed from French barricade, or an assimilation of the earlier barricado to the French form. The verb is from the noun or French barricader.

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