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unbarred

unbarred is the simple past and past participle of unbar.

Adjective

unbarred (not comparable)

  1. Not fitted or closed with bars.
  2. Of a feather, lacking barring.

Meaning of unbar

Verb

unbar (third-person singular simple present unbars, present participle unbarring, simple past and past participle unbarred)

  1. (transitive) To unlock or unbolt a door that had been locked or bolted with a bar.
    • “No need to unbar gates to thee and me,” said the martlet, as they passed beneath the darkness of that ancient portal, carved with strange devices, and clean through the massy timbers of the bolted gate thickly riveted with silver, into the inner court.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, pages 1–2
  2. (transitive) To remove an impediment that obstructs the passage of (someone or something).
  3. (transitive) To remove a prohibition.

Questions about unbarred

What does unbarred mean?
Unbarred means not fitted or closed with bars.
What is unbarred the simple past and past participle of?
Unbarred is the simple past and past participle of unbar.
What part of speech is unbarred?
Unbarred is an adjective.

Words near unbarred in the dictionary

  1. unbarks
  2. unbarnacled
  3. unbaronial
  4. unbaroque
  5. unbarrable
  6. unbarred
  7. unbarrel
  8. unbarreled
  9. unbarreling
  10. unbarrelled
  11. unbarrelling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbarred (page history and authors); unbar (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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