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abar

abar verb: to bar, prohibit, or block.

Verb

abar

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To bar, prohibit, or block.

Adjective capitalized: ABAR

ABAR (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of anti-bias anti-racism/anti-racist.
    • Watkins's statements came during the district's virtual event titled "Equity ABAR Summit: If Not You Then Who?"2021 May 28, Julia Marnin, “Twitter Outraged Over Teacher Telling Educators to Embrace Anti-Racist Thinking or Be Fired”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...
    • Combining anti-racism and culturally relevant pedagogy with capitalist promotional content could lead some followers to believe that culturally relevant pedagogy is something that can be bought or consumed rather than engaged with intellectually. The high level of promotional content is not a...2021 June 22, Jim Carlson, quoting Stephanie Schroeder, “In-school discussion about activism not consistent, research shows”, in Phys.org, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2021

Proper noun capitalized: Abar

Abar

  1. A Bantoid language spoken in Cameroon.

Forms of abar

past participleabarred
pastabarred
alternative formabarre

Origin of abar

From a- + bar.

Phrases with abar

Questions about abar

What does abar mean?
Abar means to bar, prohibit, or block.
What part of speech is abar?
Abar can be a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of abar?
The past tense of abar is abarred.

Words near abar in the dictionary

  1. abapically
  2. abaptiston
  3. abaptistons
  4. abaque
  5. abaques
  6. abar
  7. Abar 2nd
  8. Abar Ist
  9. Abarca
  10. Abarcas
  11. abare

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abar (page history and authors); ABAR (page history and authors); Abar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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