Synonyms of the word

debar

• v. (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
• v. (US, law, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection…

avert

• v. (transitive) To turn aside or away.
• v. (transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To turn away.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To turn away.

avoid

• v. (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
• v. (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
• v. (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

bar

• n. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
• n. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal…
• n. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
• n. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
• n. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar…
• n. (typography) Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in…
• n. (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed…
• n. A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves;…
• n. The counter of such a premises.
• n. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
• n. (by extension, In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) A premises or counter serving any type…
• n. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
• n. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
• n. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
• n. (programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity,…
• n. (Britain, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants…
• n. (law, "the Bar", "the bar") The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
• n. (law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically…
• n. (telecommunications) A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself.
• n. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal…
• n. (music) One of those musical sections.
• n. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault.
• n. (soccer) The crossbar.
• n. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones…
• n. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
• n. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
• n. (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
• n. An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
• n. A city gate, in some British place names.
• n. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
• n. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
• n. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
• n. (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel…
• n. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which…
• v. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To prohibit.
• v. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
• v. to imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
• prep. Except, with the exception of.
• prep. (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
• n. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea…

deflect

• v. (transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path.
• v. (intransitive) To deviate from its original path.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To divert (attention, etc.).

disallow

• v. To refuse to allow.
• v. To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper.

exclude

• v. To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
• v. To expel; to put out.
• v. (law, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
• v. (medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

expel

• v. To eject or erupt.
• v. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
• v. (transitive) To remove from membership.
• v. (transitive) To deport.

forbid

• v. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
• v. (transitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
• v. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.

foreclose

• v. (transitive) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments;…
• v. (transitive) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged…
• v. (transitive) To prevent from doing something.
• v. (transitive) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

forestall

• v. (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to…
• v. (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
• v. (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly…
• v. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
• v. To deprive (with of).
• v. (Britain, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the…
• n. (obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
• n. Something situated or placed in front.

interdict

• n. A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power…
• v. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services;…
• v. (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
• v. (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something.
• v. (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply…

obviate

• v. (transitive) To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary…
• v. (transitive) To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).

preclude

• v. (transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.

prevent

• v. (transitive) To stop; to keep from.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

prohibit

• v. (transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.

proscribe

• v. (transitive) To forbid or prohibit.
• v. (transitive) To denounce.
• v. (transitive) To banish or exclude.

suspend

• v. To halt something temporarily.
• v. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
• v. To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
• v. To hang freely; underhang.
• v. To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
• v. (obsolete) To make to depend.
• v. To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from…
• v. (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

veto

• n. A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
• n. An invocation of that right.
• n. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
• v. (transitive) To use a veto against.