Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun barring

1 sense of barring

Sense 1
barring, blackball -- (the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto)
       => ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance -- (the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school")

Antonyms of verb bar

1 of 4 senses of bar

Sense 4
bar -- (secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door")
       Antonym of unbar (Sense 1)
      => unbar -- (remove a bar from (a door))

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb bar

4 senses of bar

Sense 1
bar, debar, exclude -- (prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club")
       => forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow, nix -- (command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans")

Sense 2
barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar -- (render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road")
       => obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up -- (block passage through; "obstruct the path")

Sense 3
banish, relegate, bar -- (expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country")
       => expel, throw out, kick out -- (force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country")

Sense 4
bar -- (secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door")
       => fasten, fix, secure -- (cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man")