debar

name

1. A city in western North Macedonia.

verb

Etymology: From Anglo-Norman debarrer.

1. To exclude or shut out; to bar.

   “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 [...].”

2. To hinder or prevent.

   “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.”

3. 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.