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To exclude or shut out; to bar.transitive
- As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.
- The Minister of Transport has debarred BR workshops from seeking orders for private owners' wagons like this [...].
- 2
To hinder or prevent.transitive
- How can I then return in happy plight, That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?
- 3
To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.UStransitive
debar
di'bɑ:4 senses · 14 ms
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