to bar
- verb
- /bɑr/
- "Bar the gate," Clare ordered, out of breath from her run up the hill.
Examples
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Seal the doors and bar the windows.
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Who wants to help me bar the doors?
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-You can if I bar the door.
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- Why did you bar the door?
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We'll bar up the windows.
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Why did you bar the door?
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We must bar the gates.
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Okay, bar the doors!
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Bar the doors!
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We must bar the entrance to keep everyone safe.
Synonyms
To stop movement, access, or progress
To stop people from entering a place by putting up a barrier
Close a road, path or entrance so people cannot go through
To stop people and goods entering or leaving a place, often during war
To stop movement through a road, pipe, or path
To fasten something by putting a bar across it to make it stronger
To block a place so people cannot enter, often by putting up a fence
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A Jewish ceremony for a boy on his thirteenth birthday marking his religious responsibilities
- Specialized
A metal bar under a car that reduces how much the car leans in turns
- Specialized
A vertical line on a music staff that shows where one group of beats ends and the next begins
- Specialized
A strong metal bar inside a vehicle that protects people if it flips over
A long strong iron bar with a flat or forked end that you use to force things apart
A horizontal bar fixed at a height for lifting your body until your chin is above it
- Offensive
A system that keeps people of different races apart and often denies rights to Black people
- Specialized
A pair of vertical lines in written music that show the end of a main section or the whole piece
- Specialized
A symbol in programming that returns true when one or both conditions are true
- Archaic
A machine that prints a whole line at once by hitting paper with a moving bar
- Archaic
A diagonal band on a shield in heraldry running from the upper right to the lower left
- Specialized
A unit of pressure measured from complete vacuum and equal to the air pressure at sea level
A table game like pool where short cues hit balls into holes while knocking wooden pegs loses points
- Specialized
A solid metal bar that sits in a horse's mouth to help the rider control the horse
- US
A protective face guard made of metal bars used by the catcher in baseball or softball
- Specialized
A straight rectangular piece of metal that attracts iron and has opposite poles at each end
- Specialized
An arch of bone or flexible tissue at the side of a fish's throat that supports the gills
A single metal pole fixed high between two posts that gymnasts swing and perform moves on
- Specialized
A metal rod in a sewing machine that holds and moves the needle up and down
- US
A long heavy metal tool with a flat chisel end for prying and a curved claw end for pulling nails
- Specialized
A long heavy tool for packing material tightly into a hole or small space
A ski lift with a T-shaped bar that pulls skiers or snowboarders uphill as they hold it
- Specialized
A metal bar under a vehicle that twists to act like a spring and absorb shocks
How Blocked
Surface Forms
Etymology
To bar something in the sense 'to block' comes from putting a real bar across an entrance, so to bar a door is to stop people from getting through.