Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bar; close or fasten with a bar; make fast.
- To inclose so as to hinder egress or escape; bar up or in.
- To stop; obstruct; bar out.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.
- transitive verb To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To
enclose (as though behind bars); toimprison . - verb obsolete To
prohibit ,debar (someone from doing something).
Etymologies
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Examples
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The rest of the day before had been very tiring, what with interviews to go on tape for the telenews and photographs being took flash flash flash and more like demonstrations of me folding up in the face of ultra-violence and all that embar - rassing cal.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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But iz ok cause we doesnt sai so, do not want embar…embra…make amehicawn pplz have a sad.
i has a cozy - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I kant watch Tom Cat agen…he sooo embar…mberass…uh, soo silly!
eeeeww… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Yu embar…embra…emmmm… you maek me luk stoopid in frunt uv mah frens.
Mom cat prepares - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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God grant that your brother may not meet with any more embar-rassments from insolent men, on my account?
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But Cory Grant did not come into that category at all, so it was far better not to speculate whether her skin would feel like cool silk against his, or what it would take to make her face warm with sensual pleasure rather than embar rassment or anger.
Rome's Revenge Craven, Sara 2001
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To Cressy's embar rassment, it had been made immediately clear that she would be allowed to pay nothing for her night's lodging or her meal.
The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000
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Silvan scrambled to his feet, feeling awkward and embar - rassed.
Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000
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To Cressy's embar rassment, it had been made immediately clear that she would be allowed to pay nothing for her night's lodging or her meal.
The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000
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When he arrived, he found an embar - rassed Midalis holding a flag, the pennant of Bretherford, Duke of the Miri - anic, his brother's naval commander.
Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999
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