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barring   (TTS Sound)

The noun barring has 1 sense

• barring, blackball -- (the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto)

The verb bar has 4 senses

• bar, debar, exclude -- (prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club")


• barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar -- (render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road")


• banish, relegate, bar -- (expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country")


• bar -- (secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door")