bar
/bɑɹ/ verb B1- To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). · Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
- To prohibit. · I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.
- To lock or bolt with a bar. · to bar the door
- To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
He/she/it bars · Past barred · Past participle barred · -ing form barring
Verb forms
- Base form
- bar
- He/she/it
- bars
- Past
- barred
- Past participle
- barred
- -ing form
- barring
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Gradually the reception-room filled, and some of our old friends made their appearance—we mean Debray, Château-Renaud, and Beauchamp, accompanied by all the leading men of the day at the bar, in literature, or the army, for M.
He was conducted to a tolerably neat chamber, but grated and barred, and its appearance, therefore, did not greatly alarm him; besides, the words of Villefort, who seemed to interest himself so much, resounded still in his ears like a promise of freedom.
She placed a bar of iron in the middle of the kitchen floor, and then by her magic arts made the iron invisible to human eyes.
So that when Dorothy walked across the floor she stumbled over the bar, not being able to see it, and fell at full length.
Other matches
- bar A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or ... A1
- bar A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pasc... C2
- bar Except, other than, besides. C2
- bar Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horse... C2
- bar A metasyntactic variable representing an unspec... C2
- bar down To loosen mined ore in a cart using a bar in or...
- bar off To barricade with bars.
- bar out To keep
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