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barricaded

barricaded is the simple past and past participle of barricade.

Meaning of barricade

Verb

barricade (third-person singular simple present barricades, present participle barricading, simple past and past participle barricaded)

  1. To close or block a road etc., as, or using, a barricade.
    • I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills, to barricade the valley.1831 October 31, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter X, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 80
  2. To keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port.

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Words formed from barricaded

Questions about barricaded

What is barricaded the simple past and past participle of?
Barricaded is the simple past and past participle of barricade.

Words near barricaded in the dictionary

  1. barriadas
  2. Barriball
  3. barricade
  4. barricade tape
  5. barricade tapes
  6. barricaded
  7. barricader
  8. barricaders
  9. barricades
  10. barricading
  11. barricadings

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