barred
/ˈbɑː(ɹ)d/ adjective B2- Having bars; striped.
- Prevented, either by a physical barrier or by conditions. · He is barred by term limits from running for a third term in office.
- Indicating the start and end of words using thicker lines instead of black squares.
- High on Xanax.
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Let me say to that public, which has shown some interest in those glimpses which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts and actions of a very remarkable man, that they are not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge with them, for I should have considered it my first duty to do so, had I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was only withdrawn upon the third of last month.
The chimney is wide, but is barred up by four large staples.
It was only the Colonel himself whom I barred.
From the end of it a small wand planted here and there showed where the path zigzagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger.
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