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1. Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
   - suspend
    
2. Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
   "debar a strike";
   - forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward off
    
3. Disallow membership or entry
   "He was debarred from membership in the club";
   - bar, exclude

Derived forms: debarred, debarring, debars

Type of: disallow, expel, forbid, foreclose, forestall, interdict, kick out [informal], nix [N. Amer, informal], preclude, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, throw out, veto

Encyclopedia: Debar