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 block a place so people cannot enter, often by putting up a fence
To fasten something by putting a bar across it to make it stronger
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A Jewish ceremony for a boy on his thirteenth birthday marking his religious responsibilities
- Specialized
A strong metal bar inside a vehicle that protects people if it flips over
- Specialized
A straight rectangular piece of metal that attracts iron and has opposite poles at each end
- Offensive
A system that keeps people of different races apart and often denies rights to Black people
A horizontal bar fixed at a height for lifting your body until your chin is above it
A long strong iron bar with a flat or forked end that you use to force things apart
- Specialized
A metal bar under a car that reduces how much the car leans in turns
A single metal pole fixed high between two posts that gymnasts swing and perform moves on
- Specialized
A pair of vertical lines in written music that show the end of a main section or the whole piece
- Specialized
A metal bar under a vehicle that twists to act like a spring and absorb shocks
- Archaic
A machine that prints a whole line at once by hitting paper with a moving bar
A table game like pool where short cues hit balls into holes while knocking wooden pegs loses points
- Specialized
A vertical line on a music staff that shows where one group of beats ends and the next begins
A ski lift with a T-shaped bar that pulls skiers or snowboarders uphill as they hold it
- Specialized
A long heavy tool for packing material tightly into a hole or small space
- US
A long heavy metal tool with a flat chisel end for prying and a curved claw end for pulling nails
- Specialized
A symbol in programming that returns true when one or both conditions are true
- 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
- 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
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.