debar

Speech parts

1. debar - Verb

2. Debar - Proper noun

Meaning

To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bate prevent avoid bar ban reject deny veto exclude prohibit inhibit embargo expel taboo forbid
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Antonyms

minister cocker inlet support further include
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Hypernyms

nix prevent veto prohibit expel forbid

Hyponyms

rusticate send down

Phrases with the word

debar from

Derivatives

debarred debarring

Anagrams

barde bared beard bread ardeb Aberd Bader Breda Debra

Examples

An overtly expressed political commitment does not debar a scientist from viewing nature accurately-if only because no honest scientist or effective political activist would be foolish enough to advance a program in evident discord with the world as we find it. Stephen Jay Gould

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. Rex Stout

Let's avoid a confrontation Source: Internet

head off a confrontation Source: Internet

avert a strike Source: Internet

He was barred from membership in the club Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Debao debaptism debaptize debar from debarb debarbarization