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How to pronounce barricade in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms roadblock
Type of barrier
Type Words
Synonyms bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop
Type of close up, impede, jam, occlude, obstruct, obturate, block
Has types close off, shut off, block off, close
Verb group block, obstruct


barricade the streets.
Type Words
Synonyms barricado
Type of impede, block, close up, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude
Type Words
Type of barrier


they stormed the barricade.
Type Words
Type of jam, close up, impede, obstruct, occlude, block, obturate


The street where the President lives is always barricaded.

Examples of barricade

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First, the landowner removed the barricade and began charging $10 for each boat.
From the denverpost.com
Protesters in Barcelona building a barricade of burning tyres on Thursday night.
From the guardian.co.uk
But without turntable, we remain behind the barricade with the student-soldiers.
From the stltoday.com
The temptation to barricade the door and fall into a deep sleep was overwhelming.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
The Zubin Potok barricade was built to prevent KFOR chopping a key access road.
From the economist.com
Youths near a barricade in Constantine, eastern Algeria, Saturday Jan. 8, 2011.
From the timesunion.com
One major barricade to better therapies is the lack of appropriate animal models.
From the sciencedaily.com
Most of the characters find themselves, at one moment or another, on a barricade.
From the bloomberg.com
Some of Cho's victims were shot as they tried to barricade doors without locks.
From the inrich.com
More examples
  • Render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
  • Roadblock: a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.
  • A barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy; "they stormed the barricade"
  • Prevent access to by barricading; "The street where the President lives is always barricaded"
  • Block off with barricades
  • (barricaded) preventing entry or exit or a course of action; "a barricaded street"; "barred doors"; "the blockaded harbor"
  • Barricade, from the French barrique,(Barrel) is any object or structure that creates a barrier or obstacle to control, block passage or force the flow of traffic in the desired direction. ...
  • Barricade is a 1939 adventure film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Arthur Treacher, and Keye Luke.
  • Barricade is a 2007 horroru2013splatter feature film directed by Timo Rose, written by Timo Rose and Ted Geoghegan, and starring American actors Raine Brown and Joe Zaso and Germany's Andru00E9 Reissig, Thomas Kercmar, Manoush, and Andreas Pape.