barricaded

adjective

bar·​ri·​cad·​ed ˈber-ə-ˌkā-dəd How to pronounce barricaded (audio)
ˈba-rə-;
ˌber-ə-ˈkā-,
ˌba-rə-
: protected or blocked by a barricade
a barricaded building
a barricaded street/door

Examples of barricaded in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web According to police, demonstrators set up an encampment at a garden on the Art Institute property Saturday morning and barricaded and locked the gates. CBS News, 4 May 2024 Trump has suggested that officials might not prosecute the kinds of demonstrators who took over, barricaded, and vandalized a building at Columbia. David Jackson, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024 The noise — unsettling and dissonant — has been a constant inside the barricaded pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA. Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024 On Tuesday, with Hamilton Hall’s doors barricaded, students used a milk crate on a pulley to lift supplies into the building through an upper-floor window. Isa Farfan, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2024 In its statement Wednesday, the school said that the barricaded doors have created a fire hazard, and many toilets in the building are reportedly no longer working, according to the statement. Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 24 Apr. 2024 Once inside, Kennedy was nearby when Vice President Mike Pence was evacuated from the Senate chamber and was part of a crowd pushing to get through a barricaded door into the House chamber. Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2024 As of the early afternoon, the resident remained barricaded inside their home. Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 23 Aug. 2023 Authorities went on to introduce tear gas into the house with the barricaded subject, who turned himself in shortly afterward. Jody Serrano / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1603, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of barricaded was in 1603

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“Barricaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barricaded. Accessed 15 May. 2024.

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