BARRICADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barricade mean? 

• BARRICADE (noun)
  The noun BARRICADE has 2 senses:

1. a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

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

  Familiarity information: BARRICADE used as a noun is rare.

• BARRICADE (verb)
  The verb BARRICADE has 3 senses:

1. render unsuitable for passage

2. prevent access to by barricading

3. block off with barricades

  Familiarity information: BARRICADE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARRICADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

barricade; roadblock

Hypernyms ("barricade" is a kind of...):

barrier (a structure or object that impedes free movement)

Derivation:

barricade (block off with barricades)

barricade (prevent access to by barricading)

barricade (render unsuitable for passage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

they stormed the barricade

Hypernyms ("barricade" is a kind of...):

barrier (a structure or object that impedes free movement)

Derivation:

barricade (block off with barricades)

barricade (prevent access to by barricading)

barricade (render unsuitable for passage)

• BARRICADE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they barricade    ... he / she / it barricades   
Past simple: barricaded   
Past participle: barricaded   
-ing form: barricading   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Render unsuitable for passage

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bar; barricade; block; block off; block up; blockade; stop

Context example:

stop the busy road

Hypernyms (to "barricade" is one way to...):

block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude (block passage through)

Verb group:

block; obstruct (shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "barricade"):

block off; close off; shut off (block off the passage through)

close (bar access to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

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

barricade (a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Prevent access to by barricading

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Context example:

The street where the President lives is always barricaded

Hypernyms (to "barricade" is one way to...):

block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude (block passage through)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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

barricade (a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Block off with barricades

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

barricade; barricado

Hypernyms (to "barricade" is one way to...):

block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude (block passage through)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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

barricade (a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.)

 Context examples 

This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from beneath it that the room was not in darkness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The pillow was gone, but there was a barricade, nevertheless, a natural one, raised by time, absence, and change of heart.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When, following the course of our brook, we at last reached our glade and saw the thorny barricade of our camp, we thought that our adventures were at an end.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss Hunter had described.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not a word, unless you let me come in my old place, and promise not to barricade.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This repulsive pillow was her especial property, being used as a weapon of defense, a barricade, or a stern preventive of too much slumber.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That evening Jo forgot to barricade her corner, and had not been in her seat five minutes, before a massive form appeared beside her, and with both arms spread over the sofa back, both long legs stretched out before him, Laurie exclaimed, with a sigh of satisfaction...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But memory turned traitor, and as if possessed by the perverse spirit of the girl, would only recall Jo's oddities, faults, and freaks, would only show her in the most unsentimental aspects—beating mats with her head tied up in a bandanna, barricading herself with the sofa pillow, or throwing cold water over his passion a la Gummidge—and an irresistable laugh spoiled the pensive picture he was endeavoring to paint.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)