barricade

barricada

Obstáculo colocado en una vía para impedir el paso de personas o vehículos, a menudo como protección.

En inglés sencillo: A barrier built across a road to stop people or vehicles, often for protection.

• A barricade blocked the road.
• Protesters built barricades across the main streets.
• The soldiers waited behind a wooden barricade.

Sinónimos: barrier, roadblock

Expresiones frecuentes: police barricade, build a barricade

barricar, atrincherar

Cerrar o proteger un lugar colocando obstáculos en sus entradas.

En inglés sencillo: To block a place or protect it by putting barriers across its entrances.

• They barricaded the door with chairs.
• Protesters tried to barricade the street.
• He barricaded himself in his room.

Cómo se usa: barricade something with something (They barricaded the entrance with heavy furniture.); barricade yourself in somewhere (She barricaded herself in the office.)

Sinónimos: block, block off

Expresiones frecuentes: barricade a door, barricade yourself in