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Noun: barring baaring- The act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
- blackball Verb: bar (barred,barring) baa(r)- Prevent from entering; keep out
"He was barred from membership in the club" - debar, exclude - Render unsuitable for passage
- barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up - Expel, as if by official decree
- banish, relegate - 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 Encyclopedia: Bar, France Bar, Montenegro Bar Bar, Corrèze Bar, Tibet Bar, Ukraine Bar, Serbia, and Montenegro Bar, Serbia and Montenegro Barring |