debar
/dɪˈbɑː(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.
American usage; Transitive verb
name
A city in western North Macedonia.
Example Sentences
- "As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear."
- "The Minister of Transport has debarred BR workshops from seeking orders for private owners' wagons like this [...]."
- "How can I then return in happy plight, That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?"
- "She had also been so long debarred from any interchange of feelings and sentiments—so surrounded by strangers, that it was a true enjoyment to meet with one, who, if she did not enter into many of the emotions connected with it, was yet able and ready to talk of the past."
- ""Circumstances have arisen—circumstances beyond my control," he said and paused, "which will debar me from completing the course I had designed. It would seem, gentlemen, if I may put the thing clearly and briefly, that—Man has lived in vain.""
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman debarrer.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /dɪˈbɑː(ɹ)/
Usage
- Transitive verb
- American usage