barricade

barricade is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.
2. noun. Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense.
3. noun. To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris.
4. noun. a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy

   "they stormed the barricade"

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

   Synonyms: roadblock

6. verb. block off with barricades

   Synonyms: barricado

7. verb. prevent access to by barricading

   "The street where the President lives is always barricaded"

8. verb. render unsuitable for passage

   "block the way"

   "barricade the streets"

   Synonyms: bar, block, blockade, stop

Synonyms

roadblock, barricado, bar, block, blockade, stop

Common word forms

barricaded, barricader, barricades, barricading

Words from these letters

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