1. A barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.
   "Protesters erected barricades to block access to the building";
   - roadblock
    
2. A barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy
   "they stormed the barricade"

1. Render unsuitable for passage
   "barricade the streets";
   - block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar
    
2. Prevent access to by barricading
   "The street where the President lives is always barricaded"
    
3. Block off or fortify with barriers
   "The protesters barricaded the street to prevent police from entering";
   - barricado [archaic]

Derived forms: barricaded, barricading, barricades

Type of: barrier, block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude

Encyclopedia: Barricade