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    barred
    /bɑːd/

    adjective

    • 1. closed or secured with a long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material: "he sits by a barred window"
    • 2. marked with bands of colour or light: "he spotted a barred owl"

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  2. Barred means having a bar of wood or metal across it so that it cannot be opened. Learn how to use this word in sentences and see translations in different languages.

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  3. Something that is barred prevents your entry. If you are trying to sneak into your friend's house, avoid the barred windows. To be barred is to be blocked from entrance or not allowed to do something — as if there were imaginary bars in your path.

  4. Barred means provided with one or more bars, striped, or streaked. It can also refer to something prohibited or excluded. See how to use barred in a sentence and its origin and synonyms.

  5. Barred means marked by or divided off by bars, especially having alternate bands of different color. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related phrases of barred.

  6. Barred means provided with bars, as a prison, or banned from something. It can also describe something with stripes or bands, or a bird with distinctive color patterns. See synonyms, antonyms, translations and usage examples.

  7. Learn the meaning of barred as an adjective and a verb, with synonyms, antonyms, and sentence examples. Barred can mean marked with bars or stripes, closed off with bars, or forbidden or excluded.

  8. to equip or fasten with a bar or bars: barred the door. to block by or as if by bars: The police barred the exits. to prevent; exclude: a religion that bars divorce; barred from membership in a club. prep. except; excluding; omitting; but: We were all invited bar none.