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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.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Barricaded

    of Barricade

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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. 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.

  2. Peter Plagens:

    LA needs the cleansing of a great disaster or founding of a barricaded commune.

  3. Steven McCraw:

    We're out there doing perimeter duty under the impression [ it's a barricaded suspect ] -- I can't tell you how sick they are to seeing all of a sudden children are being brought out that are dead, that is an impact that these troops will have to live with the rest of their lives because they were there. And I guarantee you if they had known, they'd have been in there.

  4. Prosecutor Marc Keast:

    We heard two gunshots. And after that, my teacher ran into the room, locked it, we barricaded and then we covered the windows and hid, we grabbed calculators, we grabbed scissors just in case James Crumbley got in and we had to attack them.

  5. 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.

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