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barricade

noun as in blocking object

verb as in block, usually to protect

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Visitors have been hiking past parking-lot barricades to access Great Falls Park in Virginia and Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico.

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Around 1,700 police officers are already present in New Caledonia, where rioters have burned buildings, looted shops and set up road barricades, they added.

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Protesters have set public buildings on fire, looted shops and barricaded roads.

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Mr Levy's father was on security at the time of the attack and helped barricade the door.

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One young man was wounded and taken to hospital following clashes with the security forces who had erected barricades, AFP news agency reported.

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