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1. The act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
   - blackball

1. Prevent from entering; keep out
   "He was barred from membership in the club"
   - debar, exclude
    
2. Render unsuitable for passage
   - barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up
    
3. Expel, as if by official decree
   - banish, relegate
    
4. Secure with, or as if with, bars
   "He barred the door"

Derived forms: barrings

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

Antonym: unbar

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