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ADJECTIVE (2)

1. preventing entry or exit or a course of action;
- Example: "a barricaded street"
- Example: "barred doors"
- Example: "the blockaded harbor"
[syn: barricaded, barred, blockaded]

2. marked with stripes or bands;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bar \Bar\ (b[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barred (b[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Barring.] [ F. barrer. See Bar, n.] 1. To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate. [1913 Webster] 2. To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. [1913 Webster] He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] 3. To except; to exclude by exception. [1913 Webster] Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me By what we do to-night. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To cross with one or more stripes or lines. [1913 Webster] For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have barred them singly. --Burney. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

barred adj 1: preventing entry or exit or a course of action; "a barricaded street"; "barred doors"; "the blockaded harbor" [syn: barricaded, barred, blockaded] 2: marked with stripes or bands