1. Preventing entry, exit or a course of action
   "barred doors";
   - barricaded, blockaded
    
2. Marked with stripes or bands
   "The barred owl gets its name from the distinctive pattern on its feathers"

1. Disallow membership or entry
   "He was barred from membership in the club";
   - debar, exclude
    
2. Render unsuitable for passage
   "bar the streets";
   - barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up
    
3. Secure with, or as if with, bars
   "He barred the door"
    
4. Expel, as if by official decree
   "he was barred from his own country";
   - banish, relegate

Sounds like: bard, baaed

See also: marked, obstructed

Type of: block, close up, disallow, expel, fasten, fix, forbid, impede, interdict, jam, kick out [informal], nix [N. Amer, informal], obstruct, obturate, occlude, prohibit, proscribe, secure, throw out, veto

Antonym: unbar

Encyclopedia: Barred