BARRICADED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barricaded mean? 

• BARRICADED (adjective)
  The adjective BARRICADED has 1 sense:

1. preventing entry or exit or a course of action

  Familiarity information: BARRICADED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARRICADED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Preventing entry or exit or a course of action

Synonyms:

barred; barricaded; blockaded

Context example:

the blockaded harbor

Similar:

obstructed (shut off to passage or view or hindered from action)

 Context examples 

This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from beneath it that the room was not in darkness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)