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outbar

outbar verb: to bar out (shut out).

Verb

outbar (third-person singular simple present outbars, present participle outbarring, simple past and past participle outbarred)

  1. (obsolete) To bar out (shut out).
    • With which the world did in those days abound :
      Which to outbar, with painful pionings1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of outbar

third-person singular presentoutbars
present participleoutbarring
past participleoutbarred
pastoutbarred

Origin of outbar

From out- + bar.

Questions about outbar

What does outbar mean?
Outbar means to bar out (shut out).
What part of speech is outbar?
Outbar is a verb.
What is the past tense of outbar?
The past tense of outbar is outbarred.

Words near outbar in the dictionary

  1. outbalancing
  2. outband
  3. outbander
  4. outbanders
  5. outbanding
  6. outbar
  7. outbargain
  8. outbargained
  9. outbargaining
  10. outbargains
  11. outbark

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