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debar

verb

1 women were no longer debarred from the club:

exclude, ban, bar, disqualify, disentitle, declare ineligible, preclude, rule out, shut out, lock out, keep out, reject, blackball;

say no to, leave out in the cold, give the cold shoulder to, stand in the way of, refuse entrance to;

North American disfellowship.

▷antonyms admit.

2 the unions were debarred from holding a strike ballot:

prevent, prohibit, proscribe, disallow, ban, interdict, block, stop, curb, restrict, restrain, obstruct, hinder;

forbid to;

Law enjoin, estop;

archaic let.

▷antonyms allow.

debar Oxford Dictionary of English