forbar
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forbar
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From Middle English forbarren (“to bar, bar up, block”), equivalent to for- + bar. Compare Middle High German verbarren (“to forbar”).
verb forbars · forbarring · forbarred
- To bar in; to shut up.
- To bar, fend off, ward off.
- To exclude, deny.