The word 'barricaded' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb which means 'to block off or protect an area with barriers'. For example: The protesters barricaded the government building to prevent any further violence.
A shrine rescued from anarchist looting during the civil war, where Catalan intellectuals barricaded themselves away from Franco's police and Jordi Pujol's political party Convergència was founded.
About 500 protesters, most of them African-American, lined up on the other side of the road to the entrance of the prison which was barricaded by a cordon of Swat police dressed in full riot gear and brandishing tear gas rifles.
Windows and the balcony door were barricaded shut, fresh air crept into the flat through a single window.
Just before the first tranche of protracted elections took place in November, the square was barricaded by tens of thousands of protesters and gun-toting police.
Rowdy PRI supporters barricaded themselves into the council's offices.
Protesting workers also briefly barricaded some five-star hotels on a smart seafront.
Kosovo Serbs barricaded the main roads, and have moved to close the two road bridges which link the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica.In effect, the Serbs of the north have been cut off.
The roads are barricaded and locals are rowing with NATO peacekeepers and European Union police.
Some 300 of them barricaded Kim Sang Hoon, the bank's chairman, in his office.
IN THE capital, Georgetown, shopfronts were barricaded with shipping containers or metal shutters as Guyana voted on August 28th.
Last night's clashes escalated after a small group of protesters tried to break into the government headquarters, which was barricaded from the inside.
