debar
verb (used with object)
to shut out or exclude from a place or condition.
debars
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present tense formof debar (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The temptation to do this presses heavily on those whose occupations end with daylight and on those multitudes of elderly folk whose chief sorrow now is that age debars them from public service.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ill-health,—to name no other cause,—sometimes positively debars one from this relation.
From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
Those who, though able to preach worthily, are afraid through excessive humility; and those whom imperfection or age debars from preaching, and yet rashness impels to it.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg
"But, by the laws of chivalry, the minority ceases with the stroke which confers knighthood," observed Sir John; "and the constitutional law of the kingdom debars us from shortening the period of the king's minority."
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
She therefore repeated her remark slowly and in precisely the same words and tone— “I hope that there is no consideration as to health which debars you from this very desirable exercise, Mr Riddell?”
From The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed
