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debar (verb), debars; debarred, debarring
1. To forbid, hinder, or prevent: Because of the girl's misbehavior at school, she was officially debarred from attending classes for a week.
2. To prevent something from happening.
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debar, disbar
debar (dee BAHR) (verb)
To exclude or to prevent something from from happening: Being born in a foreign country would debar the candidate from running for President of the U.S.
disbar (dis BAHR) (verb)
To remove the status and privileges and obligations of someone who was a legal practitioner: Not paying his traffic fines served to disbar the lawyer so he could no longer practice law.

Whitney's unethical practices were sufficient reasons to disbar her as a lawyer.

The fact that Muriel was born in a foreign country served to debar her from applying for the government position; however, it did not disbar her from practicing medicine.

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