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单词 barricade
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barricade
(bærɪkd , US -keɪd )
Word forms: barricades , barricading , barricaded
1. countable noun
A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
Large areas of the city have been closed off by barricades set up by the demonstrators.
Synonyms: barrier, wall, railing, fence  
2. verb
If you barricade something such as a road or an entrance, you place a barricade or barrier across it, usually to stop someone getting in.
The rioters barricaded streets with piles of blazing tyres. [VERB noun]
The doors had been barricaded. [be VERB-ed]
Synonyms: bar, block, defend, secure  
3. verb
If you barricade yourself inside a room or building, you place barriers across the door or entrance so that other people cannot get in.
The students have barricaded themselves into their dormitory building. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
About forty prisoners are still barricaded inside the wrecked buildings. [be VERB-ed]
Synonyms: shut, lock, confine, enclose  
Collocations:
build a barricade
Inside the house, already bristling with security protection, there was said to be evidence of a hurried attempt to build a barricade inside the front door.
Times, Sunday Times
The gangs then used wheelie bins and a car to build a barricade.
The Sun
Enemies will continuously break down the barrier, so players must keep building the barricade up.
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They sailed up the river, landed twenty men and built a barricade.
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The group advanced in much the same manner as before, moving in short stages and building a barricade each time they halted.
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concrete barricade
It was a bus lane, still under construction, with a concrete barricade and high fence.
Times, Sunday Times
The aircraft veered off the runway and hit a concrete barricade at the speed of approximately 100 km/h (62 mph).
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It crashed through a concrete barricade, hit a group of private garages and burst into flames.
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Walk beyond concrete barricade and you have a 4mi km stretch all to yourself.
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There are blockades, concrete barricades and several hundred police officers.
Times, Sunday Times
erect a barricade
Some wanted to erect barricades, some wanted to disrupt filming by storming the set, while others said we should stage a sit-down.
Times, Sunday Times
If they (or the authorities) are belligerent, they end up clashing with police, lobbing bricks and erecting barricades.
Times,Sunday Times
Restaurants must erect barricades or planters at least 30in (76cm) high and 18in wide that can stretch up to 8ft out from the kerb.
Times,Sunday Times
People unsuccessfully tried to erect a barricade.
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Protesters erected barricades across hundreds of streets in the capital yesterday after the opposition called on the nation to reject the result.
Times, Sunday Times
form a barricade
Four deacons and ushers formed a barricade to prevent her from following them into the sanctuary.
Christianity Today
A group of youths formed a barricade and hurled firebombs or threw back gas canisters at police.
Times, Sunday Times
There were no steps to reach the hill top and it was covered by bamboos and other trees forming a barricade.
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makeshift barricade
At the top of it they found a kind of makeshift barricade, made of chests and benches hurriedly heaped together.
Christianity Today
Sealed off by a makeshift barricade, the container port resembles a scene from a disaster film.
Times, Sunday Times
A group of youths skulked nearby, watched by riot police on the far side of a makeshift barricade.
Times, Sunday Times
About 200 protesters attempted to defend the camp with a makeshift barricade consisting of crates, metal police barricades and dumpsters.
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Residents patrolled makeshift barricades to protect their homes from looters, and army tanks remained at key intersections.
Times, Sunday Times
man the barricades
You drive past minefields and military checkpoints, watch as troops man the barricades.
Times, Sunday Times
In the meantime, an impossible burden has been placed on those who man the barricades.
Times, Sunday Times
I am not going to man the barricades for that.
Times, Sunday Times
Volunteers from within and without each constituency would come to man the barricades.
Times, Sunday Times
You once said it was time to man the barricades.
Times, Sunday Times
metal barricade
At approximately the same time, a second window on the building's first floor, on the western side was broken when protesters threw a metal barricade into it.
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The road has been blocked off since his election and this week additional concrete barriers and metal barricades were put in place.
Times, Sunday Times
They were confronted by masked protesters using metal barricades, traffic cones, rubbish bins, umbrellas and plastic tape to slow down their enemy.
Times, Sunday Times
The area was quiet yesterday, although debris from hours earlier was everywhere: upturned metal barricades, discarded helmets and umbrellas, placards and broken glass.
Times, Sunday Times
As the day draws on, some grow weary of waiting and start kicking and hammering on the metal barricades.
Times, Sunday Times
remove a barricade
One officer was injured yesterday when soldiers trying to remove the barricades came under fire.
Times, Sunday Times
Eventually however the activists removed the barricades and joined a larger, peaceful protest.
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Police removed the barricades and re-opened the streets to traffic.
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Translations:
Chinese: 街垒, 设街垒
Japanese: バリケード, バリケードを築く
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