Debar

Quick meaning: Debar is a verb meaning (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.

Meaning

(transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To hinder or prevent.
2. (US, law, transitive) 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.

Example Sentences

How can I then return in happy plight, That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?

The Minister of Transport has debarred BR workshops from seeking orders for private owners' wagons like this [...].

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.

"Circumstances have arisen—circumstances beyond my control," he said and paused, "which will debar me from completing the course I had designed. It would seem, gentlemen, if I may put the thing clearly and briefly, that—Man has lived in vain."

Word Forms

• debars
• debarring
• debarred

Synonyms for debar

Depending on context, synonyms include obviate, bar, deflect, avert, avoid, exclude.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exclude, avert, obviate, avoid, suspend, deflect.

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