1. The act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
   "The barring of the controversial speaker from the event caused heated debate";
   - blackball

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

Derived forms: barrings

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

Antonym: unbar

Encyclopedia: Barring