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barricade

noun as in blocking object

verb as in block, usually to protect

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Sarah stood by the police barricade with her 12-year-old sister, Mary, and their mother, Rada.

A white police officer standing amid the crowd inside the barricade got his laughs a moment later.

(Rioters) were building a barricade across Winchester Street and looking for material.

In front of the City Hall building hundreds of tires have been piled up to form a barricade that is manned by yet more masked men.

They made a barricade of metal junk and acted as human shields to stop the train proceeding.

Across the middle of the cage a stout barricade has been erected, and behind the barricade sits the Master, pale but defiant.

The besiegers forced the advance barricade, burned the drawbridge, and fired the gate.

Then she issued her commands to the men, and fiercely she bade them pull down that barricade and take the dog alive.

He would go alone if he must; no barricade of unearthly beasts could hold him from the great adventure.

First there was to be seen the city itself, nestled beyond its barricade of levees.

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On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to barricade, such as: barrier, blockade, fence, rampart, roadblock, and wall.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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