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debar

/dɪˈbɑː(ɹ)/

debar verb: to exclude or shut out; to bar.

Verb

debar (third-person singular simple present debars, present participle debarring, simple past and past participle debarred)

  1. (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
    • As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
    • The Minister of Transport has debarred BR workshops from seeking orders for private owners' wagons like this [...].1964 May, “News and Comment”, in Modern Railways, page 291, photo caption
    Synonyms:
    preclude
  2. (transitive) To hinder or prevent.
    • How can I then return in happy plight,
      That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 28”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
    • She had also been so long debarred from any interchange of feelings and sentiments—so surrounded by strangers, that it was a true enjoyment to meet with one, who, if she did not enter into many of the emotions connected with it, was yet able and ready to talk of the past.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 218
  3. (US, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.

Proper noun capitalized: Debar

Debar

  1. A city in western North Macedonia.

debar meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

debar in Tamil

உரிமை தடு, தடங்கல் செய், தடு, விலக்கி வை

debar in Malayalam

bar, exclude, ban
പ്രവേശനം തടയുക, ബഹിഷ്കരിക്കുക, പുറംതള്ളുക, ഉൾപ്പെടുത്താതിരിക്കുക, ഒഴിച്ചുനിർത്തുക, ഒഴിവാക്കുക
prohibit, prevent, proscribe
തടയുക, വിലക്കുക, നിരോധിക്കുക, നിഷിദ്ധമാക്കുക, തടുക്കുക, പ്രതിബന്ധിക്കുക

debar in Kannada

ಹೊರಹಾಕು, ಉಚ್ಚಾಟಿಸು, ನಿಷೇಧಿಸು, ಬಹಿಷ್ಕರಿಸು, ತಡೆ

Synonyms of debar

Forms of debar

third-person singular presentdebars
present participledebarring
past participledebarred
pastdebarred

Origin of debar

From Anglo-Norman debarrer.

Words formed from debar

Questions about debar

What does debar mean?
Debar means to exclude or shut out; to bar.
What is debar in Tamil?
Debar in Tamil is உரிமை தடு, தடங்கல் செய், தடு. See Debar meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is debar?
Debar can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce debar?
Debar is pronounced /dɪˈbɑː(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the past tense of debar?
The past tense of debar is debarred.

Words near debar in the dictionary

  1. debaptisms
  2. debaptize
  3. debaptized
  4. debaptizes
  5. debaptizing
  6. debar
  7. debarb
  8. debarbarization
  9. debarbarize
  10. debarbarized
  11. debarbarizes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: debar (page history and authors); Debar (page history and authors); debar (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); debar (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); debar (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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