barricaded's Usage Examples:

They threw rocks at the riders, and barricaded the road.

The Romans entered by one; but when they reached the second defile they found it barricaded.

24 June 1989, Oria (Brindisi): Roberto Di Giovanni, 26 years old, suffering from a mental disorder that worsened after his mother died, barricaded himself in a house with a pistol and a couple hunting rifles and shot 200 rounds at civilians and later against the police, killing one person and injuring 10, among them 4 Carabinieri and a policeman.

Accordingly, unattended trenches must be covered, barricaded or backfilled.

The Burmese barricaded themselves in behind the unmilled logs.

As rebel discipline began to waver, trapped units of yeomen, some of whom had barricaded themselves into their own houses, opened fire on the unsuspecting rebels milling in the streets outside.

Staff and students at the school made headlines when they barricaded the police into their school in September.

Inside the city the inhabitants barricaded the major streets, preparing for what they believed to be an inevitable assault.

The bells of both the town and university churches were rung to rally the respective supporters; students locked and barricaded some of the town's gates, to stop an influx of outsiders coming at them from a new direction.

Roads are also planned to be decongested and some will be barricaded.

2 November 2013, Rovigo: with a night blitz of less than three minutes, GIS breached the home of Costa di Rovigo and captured three people, two men and a woman, that had been barricaded for 33 hours with the sworn threat of burning down the building.

3 May 2012, Romano di Lombardia, near Bergamo: An armed man barricaded himself in the main seat of the Italian Tax office and taking hostages.

The squire is shot dead by the vicar's daughter, who discovers his treachery as he attempts to let the Germans into the barricaded house.

Synonyms:

blockaded, obstructed, barred,

Antonyms:

unimpeded, open, unmarked, unobstructed,