barreth

Verb

bar (third-person singular simple present bars, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)

1. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
   • Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.

   Synonyms:

   block, hinder, obstruct

2. (transitive) To prohibit.
   • I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.

   Synonyms:

   ban, interdict, prohibit, foreclose

3. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
   • to bar the door
4. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
   • I lived in a hut in the yard. To be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208...

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