debar

See also: Debar

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman debarrer.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈbɑː(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

debar (third-person singular simple present debars, present participle debarring, simple past and past participle debarred)

1. (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1964 May, “News and Comment”, in Modern Railways, page 291, photo caption:

     The Minister of Transport has debarred BR workshops from seeking orders for private owners' wagons like this [...].

2. (transitive) To hinder or prevent.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 28”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     How can I then return in happy plight,
     That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 218:

     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.

3. (US, law, transitive) 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.

Usage notes

• Compare disbar.

Derived terms

• debarment

Translations

To exclude or shut out; to bar

• Bulgarian: възпирам (bg) (vǎzpiram), препятствам (bg) (prepjatstvam)
• German: ausschließen (de)
• Portuguese: barrar (pt), excluir (pt)
• Turkish: engel olmak (tr), menetmek (tr), yasaklamak (tr)

Anagrams

• Bader, Beard, Breda, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, beard, bread

Ido

Etymology

Same as devar.

Verb

debar (present tense debas, past tense debis, future tense debos, imperative debez, conditional debus)

1. to owe (something to someone), be under obligation (to someone, for something)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of debar

		present		past		future
infinitive		debar		debir		debor
tense		debas		debis		debos
conditional		debus
imperative		debez
adjective active participle		debanta		debinta		debonta
adverbial active participle		debante		debinte		debonte
nominal active participle	singular	debanto		debinto		debonto
	plural	debanti		debinti		debonti
adjective passive participle		debata		debita		debota
adverbial passive participle		debate		debite		debote
nominal passive participle	singular	debato		debito		deboto
	plural	debati		debiti		deboti

Paronyms

• devar (“should”)

Scots

Alternative forms

• debair

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English debarre. Cognate with English debar.

Pronunciation

• (Early Scots) IPA^(key): [dɪˈbaːr]
• (1575 Early Middle Scots) IPA^(key): [dɪˈbɛːr], [dɛ̽ˈbɛːr]
• (1600 Late Middle Scots) IPA^(key): [dɪˈbe(ː)r], [dɛ̽ˈbe(ː)r]

Verb

debar (third-person singular simple present debaris, present participle debaryng, simple past debarit/debared, past participle debarit/debared)

1. (Middle Scots, transitive) to shut out

Conjugation

Middle Scots conjugation of debar

infinitive	(to) debar
indicative	present	preterite
1st person singular	debar	debarit
2nd person singular	debaris	debarit
3rd person singular	debaris	debarit
¹ plural	debar	debarit
imperative	present	—
singular	debar (þow)!
¹ plural	debar (ȝe)!
participle	present	past
	debarand	debarit
Note: When not immediately preceded or followed by a pronoun, a verb in the present tense takes the -is inflection, in any person and number. See Northern Subject Rule. ¹ Commonly used as a formal 2nd-person singular.