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Noun barring has 1 sense
- barring, blackball - the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
--1 is a kind of ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance
Verb bar has 4 senses
- bar, debar, exclude - prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club"
--1 is one way to forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar - render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
--2 is one way to obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
- banish, relegate, bar - expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country"
--3 is one way to expel, throw out, kick out
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
- bar - secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door"
--4 is one way to fasten, fix, secure
Antonyms: unbar
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