debar

Other forms of debar

past tense or participle

debarred

present participle

debarring

third person

debars·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about debar

What does debar mean?

debar means "bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in debar?

debar has 2 syllables: de-bar. The stress falls on "bar".

What is another word for debar?

Close synonyms include suspend, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is debar a common word?

debar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.