debar
verb (used with object)
to shut out or exclude from a place or condition.
debarred
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past participleof debar.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof debar.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
debarverb (used with object)to shut out or exclude from a place or condition.
Example Sentences
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Horowitz criticized the government’s failure early on to use the “Do Not Pay” Treasury Department database, designed to keep government money from going to debarred contractors, fugitives, felons or people convicted of tax fraud.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
The divorced, disgraced, and debarred physician was ready to come out of the shadows: He was an illegal abortionist and had been for more than 35 years and 25,000 procedures.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2022
Career employees, meanwhile, have faced warning letters, reprimands, suspensions without pay and, in extreme cases, been fired and debarred from returning to government.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2020
The order stipulates that officials who violate the pledge can be debarred from their post and future lobbying, and possibly sued in civil court.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2017
Private Morris debarred our passage with his arm.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
