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barring

 
Noun barring has 1 sense
  1. 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
  1. 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
    Derived form: noun bar6
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
    Somebody ----s something PP
  2. 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
    Derived form: noun bar5
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. 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
  4. bar - secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door"
    --4 is one way to
    fasten, fix, secure
    Antonyms: unbar
    Derived forms: noun bar5, noun bar3
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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