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Adjective barred has 2 senses
- barred, bolted, fast, latched, locked, secured - firmly fastened or secured against opening; "windows and doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the house properly secured"
Antonym: unfastened (indirect, via fastened)
- barricaded, barred, blockaded - preventing entry or exit or a course of action; "a barricaded street"; "barred doors"; "the blockaded harbor"
Antonym: unobstructed (indirect, via obstructed)
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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- 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
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- 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:
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- 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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