Definitions for barricade

barricade bar·ri·cade

Spelling: [bar-i-keyd, bar-i-keyd]
IPA: /ˈbær ɪˌkeɪd, ˌbær ɪˈkeɪd/

Barricade is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in barricade (aabcdeirr).

Definitions for barricade

noun

  1. a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
  2. any barrier that obstructs passage.

verb (used with object)

  1. to obstruct or block with a barricade:
  2. to shut in and defend with or as if with a barricade:

Origin of barricade

1585-95; French, equivalent to barrique barrel (Gascon) + -ade -ade1; early barricades in Paris were often composed of barrels

Examples for barricade

They pushed their way past the barricade and found Zimmerman, who appeared by that point to have shed his aggression.

A white police officer standing amid the crowd inside the barricade got his laughs a moment later.

(Rioters) were building a barricade across Winchester Street and looking for material.

The officers had come forward to the barricade and were consulting together.

In front of the City Hall building hundreds of tires have been piled up to form a barricade that is manned by yet more masked men.

We are strong enough to beat them off if we barricade the house.

After a pause it became evident that the barricade was being destroyed.

The end was close at hand; they might come out in the rear of the barricade at any moment.

They made a barricade of metal junk and acted as human shields to stop the train proceeding.

If you refuse to act with me, barricade the door between the bar and the north wing.

Word Value for barricade
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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