debar
verb (used with object)
to shut out or exclude from a place or condition.
have debarred
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present perfectof debar.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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However, the divines of the age have debarred men from this transcendent station, and have kept them back from this Pinnacle of Glory, this Supreme Goal.
From Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh
The situation is interesting in view of the amiable resolutions adopted at Washington, by which the Powers would seem to have debarred themselves, in the future, from any active form of intervention in this country.
From The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell
It was unfortunate that, upon this occasion, the lack of means or slenderness of margin for incidental expenses should have debarred him from having recourse to a similar expedient.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
Ever since I have had some Knowledge of the Matter, I have debarred my Prentice from Pen, Ink and Paper.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
But that would have debarred Maximo Gomez, who was born in Santo Domingo.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
