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Verb: embar  em'baa(r)
Usage: archaic
  1. Bar or shut in; enclose securely, as with bars
    "The prisoners were embarred in their cells"
     
  2. Stop; hinder by prohibition; block up
    "The new regulations embarred the import of certain goods"

Derived forms: embared, embaring, embars