barricading
present participle ofbarricade
barricade
verb[T]
uk/ˈbær.ɪ.keɪd//bær.ɪˈkeɪd/us/ˈber.ə.keɪd//ber.əˈkeɪd/tobuilda barricadeacross, around, or infrontof something:
Barricade thedoors!
[+ adv/prep]Terrifiedvillagershave barricaded themselvesintotheirhouses.
Closing and blocking
- barricade
- batten
- batten down the hatchesidiom
- be snowed upidiom
- blocksomethingoff
- choke
- congest
- cork
- dam
- damsomethingup
- ensconce
- gum
- seal
- self-seal
- self-sealing
- shut
- shut(something)off
- shutsomeone/somethingin(something)
- snap
- the darkest hour is just before the dawnidiom
Examplesofbarricading
barricading
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
It is no goodbarricadingthe front door if we leave the back door wide open.
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I still remember setting the first poll tax and people jumping down from the gallery andbarricadingthemselves in the council chamber.
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The practice ofbarricadingthe streets is well under way.
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In the two wings to be opened later this year, cells have been provided with doors that can open outwards to preventbarricading.
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Our defensive strategy of enclosing ourselves in a single market andbarricadingourselves in will ultimately prove to be a losing one.
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A further £250,000 had to be spent by private individuals inbarricadingup their shops and offices in order to prevent damage.
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In the last few months there have been three strikes at three different prisons, with prisonersbarricadingthemselves in, all for the same thing.
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I have no information that they used violence, beyondbarricadingthemselves in their cells.
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It involves inciting riots,barricadingparticular sectors and getting people in the street involved in destabilising the country.
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It is no goodbarricadingour front door if we leave our back door open.
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A quarter of a million pounds was spent in extra police pay, and the public had to spend a further quarter of a million pounds inbarricadingup their premises.
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The procession saw an armed policebarricadingwhere demonstrators including five students were martyred at indiscriminate police firing to crowd.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The attempt atbarricadingthe door proved unsuccessful.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Several protests were held over the years against thebarricadingof the access road, but to no avail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They beginbarricadingtheir house and preparing to fight the government's attempts to turn them out.
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- before long
- before-long
- before-tax
- before-tax
- before the Flood
- before-the-flood
- before the mast
- before-the-mast
- before-very-eyes
- before (very/too) long
- before-very-too-long
- before you can say Jack Robinson
- before-you-can-say-jack-robinson
- before you know it
- before you know it
- before-you-know-it
- before your very eyes
- before-your-very-eyes
- be-for-the-asking
- be for the high jump
- be-for-the-high-jump
- be found
- be-found
- be-free-with-favors
- be-free-with-favours