barricade• The police courteously directedpatrons around the crowd-control barricades.• Ironically, during the civilwar, they served as the building blocks for barricades.• Police barricades were set up at the frontentrance, and police cars occasionally circled the building.• In spirit, then, I will take my place at the barricades beside Mr Wei.• Finally a single Land-Rover ground over the ridge and stopped at the barricade.• Images of desperate freedom-fighters handing the packetroundbehind the barricade.• Discussions took place in the street behind the barricades, and in private houses, about futuretactics.• Soldiersfired over the barricades at the rioters.• This loss is not renewedovernight, even though the barricades are now down.
barricade2 verb [transitiveT]
PROTECTto build a barricade to prevent someone or something from getting in 设路障于;以障碍物阻塞
During the riots, some of the prisoners barricaded their cells.
barricade somebody/yourself in/into something• Perfect for a singalong on the barricades.• Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in.• Then we barricaded ourselves in, piled our mattresses against the cell door.• Luke could have done with more help, but Umberto had barricaded himself into the tack room with another bottle.• Dozens of families in the farms around the hamlet have practically barricaded themselves into their homes.
Originbarricade1
(1500-1600)Frenchbarrique“barrel”; because early barricades were made from barrels