abatis, bartizan, button, close up, dike, fold, loophole, padlock, scarp, snap, wall
Definitionn. a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.
Last update: August 15, 2015
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The soldiers barricaded in the valley. [verb]
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The soldiers stormed the barricades erected by the rioters. [verb]
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The noise of the firing had made him hurry to the barricade. [Please select]
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Cosette, he went to the barricade to save me. [verb]
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The building was barricaded, and walled, as it were, from top to bottom. [verb]
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The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that one would have said that there had been a snowstorm. [noun]
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This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the commanders who were to direct the assault on the barricade, was useful to Gavroche. [verb]
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They were the reports of the cannon battering the barricade. [verb]
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The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. [verb]
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Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and let us all remain in it. [verb]
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They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's den. [verb]
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