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bar·ri·cad·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. barricaded, barred, blockadedadjective

    preventing entry or exit or a course of action

    "a barricaded street"; "barred doors"; "the blockaded harbor"

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  1. barricaded

    Barricaded refers to the action of blocking off or sealing an area, using barriers or obstacles to prevent access or movement. Often used in reference to buildings, rooms, streets, or other areas that are closed off for security reasons, emergencies, or to keep people in or out.

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  1. Barricaded

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Barricaded in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Barricaded in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Barricaded in a Sentence

  1. Tony Gonzales:

    And then it stops, and he barricades himself in. That's where there's kind of a lull in the action, all of it, I understand, lasted about an hour, but this is where there's kind of a 30-minute lull. They feel as if they've got him barricaded in. The rest of the students in the school are now leaving.

  2. Cheryl Furler:

    About three dozen police vehicles, including an armored truck, and four ambulances responded to the shooting. The Whitehall and Allentown police departments, and Pennsylvania State Police troopers, were on the scene, The Morning Call reported. No arrests havebeen made as of Sunday, and no motive behind the shooting was released. Investigatorswerereviewing surveillance footage in hopes of identifying a suspect. Authorities called for anyone in the mall at the time of the shooting who may have cell phone video of the incident to contact police. NEARLY 100 PROTESTERS ARRESTED AT ABOLISH ICE PROTESTS IN NYC Lehigh Valley Hospital and St. Lukes University Hospital were put on alert in case anyone injured left the mall undetected before law enforcement arrived, The Morning Call reported. Allentown Police Capt.Mike Becker told The Associated Press that Allentown Police Capt.Mike Becker department was assisting Whitehall Township Police but had no other information to share. Cheryl Furler, an employee at Bath Body Works, told WFMZ that Cheryl Furler and about 50 other people barricaded themselves in the stockroom. We took filing cabinets and pushed them up against the doors.

  3. Ayanna Pressley:

    For those that continue to feign great surprise about what happened on January 6. As a Black woman, to be barricaded in my office, using office furniture and water bottles on the ground in the dark that terror, those moments of terror, is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me, i want us to do everything to ensure that a breach like this never occurs at the Capitol, but I want us to address the evil and scourge that is White supremacy in this nation. This is not only about securing the Capitol to ensure that members and our staffs and custodial staff and food service workers are safe in the Capitol. It is that we are safe in America.

  4. Larry Johnson:

    You kind of create your own prison, i’ve kind of barricaded myself in my surroundings [with] certain things that I can handle. That’s kind of how I beat it.

  5. Public Safety Director Steven McCraw:

    The on-scene commander considered a barricaded subject and that there was time and there were no children at risk. Obviously, you know, based on the information we have, there were children in that classroom that were at risk, and it was, in fact, still an active shooter situation and not a barricaded subject.

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