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1. Preventing entry, exit or a course of action
   "barred doors";
   - barricaded, blockaded
    
2. Marked with stripes or bands

1. Disallow membership or entry
   "He was barred from membership in the club";
   - debar, exclude
    
2. Render unsuitable for passage
   "bar the streets";
   - barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up
    
3. Expel, as if by official decree
   "he was barred from his own country";
   - banish, relegate
    
4. Secure with, or as if with, bars
   "He barred the door"

Sounds like: bard, baaed

See also: marked, obstructed

Type of: block, close up, disallow, expel, fasten, fix, forbid, impede, interdict, jam, kick out [informal], nix [N. Amer, informal], obstruct, obturate, occlude, prohibit, proscribe, secure, throw out, veto

Antonym: unbar

Encyclopedia: Barred