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
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
The problems of expense debars most colleges from establishing museums of art; but with a modest annual appropriation a working collection can be gradually gathered together.
From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper
They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that society which debars them from its privileges.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
Habsburg blood flows in their veins as it flows in you, the Heir Presumptive, but the Family Law debars them.
From The Secret Witness by George Gibbs
