barred

Verb

Verb Forms: bar, barring, bars, barred

• Prevented or excluded from doing something; having bars.
• Blocked, prevented, or excluded.
• prevent from entering; keep out
  • "He was barred from membership in the club"
• render unsuitable for passage
• expel, as if by official decree
• secure with, or as if with, bars
  • "He barred the door"
• simple past and past participle of bar
• simple past and past participle of barr

Adjective Satellite

• preventing entry or exit or a course of action
  • "barred doors"
• marked with stripes or bands

Adj

• Having bars; striped.
• Prevented, either by a physical barrier or by conditions.
• Indicating the start and end of words using thicker lines instead of black squares.
• High on Xanax.

Examples

• He barred the door at evening.
• He is barred by term limits from running for a third term in office.
• He was effectively barred from placing any long words due to the tight board.
• My beautiful seven-letter play was barred by a single, pesky consonant.

Synonyms

banish, bar, barricade, barricaded, block, block off, block up, blockade, blockaded, debar, exclude, relegate, stop

Antonyms

unbar, blocked

Anagrams of barred