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upbar

/ʌpˈbɑː(ɹ)/

upbar verb: to fasten with a bar.

Verb

upbar (third-person singular simple present upbars, present participle upbarring, simple past and past participle upbarred)

  1. (rare, transitive) To fasten with a bar.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To remove the bar or bars of, as a gate; to unbar.
    • He running down , the gate to him upbar'd1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of upbar

third-person singular presentupbars
present participleupbarring
past participleupbarred
pastupbarred

Origin of upbar

From up- + bar.

Words that rhyme with upbar

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Questions about upbar

What does upbar mean?
Upbar means to fasten with a bar.
What part of speech is upbar?
Upbar is a verb.
How do you pronounce upbar?
Upbar is pronounced /ʌpˈbɑː(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of upbar?
The past tense of upbar is upbarred.

Words near upbar in the dictionary

  1. upazila
  2. upazilas
  3. UPB
  4. upback
  5. upbacks
  6. upbar
  7. upbarred
  8. upbarring
  9. upbars
  10. upbay
  11. upbear

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