Dictionary

debar en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /dɪˈbɑː(ɹ)/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman debarrer.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
   • As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear. 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
   • The Minister of Transport has debarred BR workshops from seeking orders for private owners' wagons like this [...]. 1964 May, “News and Comment”, in Modern Railways, page 291, photo caption:
2. (transitive) To hinder or prevent.
   • She had also been so long debarred from any interchange of feelings and sentiments—so surrounded by strangers, that it was a true enjoyment to meet with one, who, if she did not enter into many of the emotions connected with it, was yet able and ready to talk of the past. 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 218:
   • "Circumstances have arisen—circumstances beyond my control," he said and paused, "which will debar me from completing the course I had designed. It would seem, gentlemen, if I may put the thing clearly and briefly, that—Man has lived in vain." 1897, H. G. Wells, The Star (Science Fiction):
   • How can I then return in happy plight, That am debarr'd the benefit of rest? 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 28”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
3. (US, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.

Forms

Deriveds

undebarred · debarment

Synonyms

preclude

Translations (11)

cs vykázat (To exclude or shut out; to bar) · bg препятствам (To exclude or shut out; to bar) · tr engel olmak (To exclude or shut out; to bar) · cs vyloučit (To exclude or shut out; to bar) · tr yasaklamak (To exclude or shut out; to bar) · de ausschließen (To exclude or shut out; to bar) · bg възпирам (To exclude or shut out; to bar) · pt excluir (To exclude or shut out; to bar) · pt barrar (To exclude or shut out; to bar) · tr menetmek (To exclude or shut out; to bar) · cs zakázat účast (To exclude or shut out; to bar)