MEANING
To prevent someone from participating or exercising a right through an official restriction.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- debar from bidding
- debar a participant
On the page
The ruling debarred the firm from future tenders.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- debar
- Past tense
- debarred
- Past participle
- debarred
- Present participle
- debarring
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- debar
- Present continuous
- am/is/are debarring
- Present perfect
- have/has debarred
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been debarring
- Past
- debarred
- Past continuous
- was/were debarring
- Past perfect
- had debarred
- Past perfect continuous
- had been debarring
- Future
- will debar
- Future continuous
- will be debarring
- Future perfect
- will have debarred
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been debarring
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: debar; debars; debarred; debarred; debarring Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, qualification. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: debars.
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