barricading
barricading is the present participle and gerund of barricade.
Noun
barricading (plural barricadings)
- A barricade.
- The act of putting up a barricade.
Meaning of barricade
Verb
barricade (third-person singular simple present barricades, present participle barricading, simple past and past participle barricaded)
- 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
- To keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port.
Forms of barricading
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Questions about barricading
- What does barricading mean?
- Barricading means a barricade.
- What is barricading the present participle and gerund of?
- Barricading is the present participle and gerund of barricade.
- What part of speech is barricading?
- Barricading is a noun.
- What is the plural of barricading?
- The plural of barricading is barricadings.
Words near barricading in the dictionary
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