to bar
- verb
- /bɑr/
- Folks, Mr. Zalinsky gave us specific instructions to bar you from the building.
- law bars
- bar lawsuits
- bar private actions
Examples
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The Fourth Amendment bars the government from unreasonable search and seizure of your scribblings while at home.
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The judge decided to bar the defendant from attending the trial due to prior misconduct.
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You have no right to bar us from this house.
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Why did you bar him?
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A rule should be in place that bars the player from the next game.
Blog text (15) -
You could withdraw my card of identity and bar me from news conferences.
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And if someone bars your way, he threatens not just you, but the good of the kingdom as a whole.
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Article VI of the Constitution expressly bars any religious test for public office.
Academic text (1993) -
A state legislature bars ordained clergy from becoming candidates for public office.
Academic text (1993) -
Planned Parenthood sought and received an injunction to bar the new Wisconsin law from taking effect.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
To officially stop someone from doing something by law or rule
To keep someone or something out so they are not part of something
To officially say that something is not allowed by law
To officially stop someone from entering, taking part, or holding a position
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
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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
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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 Excluded
Surface Forms
Etymology
To bar someone, meaning 'to forbid', comes from the idea of putting a 'bar' in front of them; that's why it means to officially stop someone from joining or entering.