Debar definition

dē-bär
debarred debarring debars
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To exclude or shut out; bar.
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To forbid, hinder, or prevent.
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To keep (a person) from some right or privilege; exclude; bar.
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To prevent, hinder, or prohibit.
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A city in the west of the Republic of Macedonia.
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Origin of debar

  • Middle English debarren from Old French desbarer to unbar des- de- barer to bar (from barre bar bar1)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Debar Sentence Examples

  • Having a criminal record will not automatically debar you from doing voluntary work.

  • If the question put is tightly circumscribed, the adjudicator, as first happened here, would be right to debar new arguments.

  • Criminal Records Having a criminal record does not necessarily debar you from being admitted onto your course at the University of Bolton.

  • Should the people wish to confer them, they would have to do so by way of amending the Constitution; and herein lies a remarkable difference between the American system on the one hand and those of some European countries on the other, which, although they have created rigid constitutions, do not expressly debar the legislature from using any and every power of government.

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