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Meanings of barricade in English

Portuguese
bloquear
Catalan
blocar
Spanish
bloquear

To render passage impossible by physical obstruction.

      bloquear
      Portuguese
      barricada
      Catalan
      barricada
      Spanish
      control de carreteras

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

            barricada
            Catalan
            posar barricades
            Spanish
            parapetarse

            Block off with barricades.

                  posar barricades
                  Usage of barricade in English
                  1
                  There were still more areas Marfell wanted to barricade off, he said.
                  Radio NZ
                  2
                  The captain of the head-barricade in the Corso demurred, requiring a counter-sign.
                  Vittoria — Volume 6
                  3
                  I approached the barricade of the enemy, in order to reconnoitre it.
                  Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02
                  4
                  Residents gathered to barricade the town centre earlier on Thursday, 26 September.
                  The South African
                  5
                  She set about putting the poles in place to barricade the opening.
                  The Border Legion
                  6
                  But-They took the barricade down, the scouts soon come and tell them.
                  Iron Council
                  7
                  All the troops and all the weapons were moved behind the barricade.
                  Hunters Out of Space
                  8
                  The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack.
                  Les Misérables
                  9
                  The noise of the firing had made him hurry to the barricade.
                  The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
                  10
                  He stationed himself at the barricade at the head of the street.
                  Friends, though divided: A Tale of the Civil War
                  11
                  Enjolras had not fallen into this trap; the barricade did not reply.
                  Les Misérables
                  12
                  Protesters stand on a barricade during an anti-government protest in Kiev yesterday.
                  The Irish Times
                  13
                  A moment more and they were within the barricade of the timber.
                  Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure under the ...
                  14
                  But put them at a police barricade and a miraculous thing happens.
                  Darkly Dreaming Dexter
                  15
                  Nothing could be more frightful than the interior of the captured barricade.
                  The History of a Crime / The Testimony of an Eye-Witness
                  16
                  Bage near sledge; Webb taking set of magnetic observations behind snow barricade
                  The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
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