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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

bar out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (literally, transitive) To keep (someone or something) from entering.
  2. (obsolete) To shut a teacher out of the classroom as a prank.
    • We feel that it is a disgrace to a man like Tennyson, when he talks of the French revolutions, the huge crusades that had recreated the whole of his civilisation, as being "no graver than a schoolboy's barring out." 1913, G. K. Chesterton, “chapter 3”, in The Victorian Age in Literature:
    • Not schoolboys at a barring out Rais’d ever such incessant rout 1728, The Journal of a Modern Lady, Jonathan Swift:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bars out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
barring out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
barred out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
barred out Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

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