Word Explorer

Forbar

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Forbar"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

WordDefinition
forebarverbAlternative form of forbar. [(obsolete, transitive) To bar in; to shut up.]
abarnounA Bantoid language spoken in Cameroon.
debarnounA city in western North Macedonia.
upbarverb(transitive, rare) To fasten with a bar.
bar offverb(transitive, figurative) To prohibit (e.g. a topic of discussion).
bebarnoun(transitive) To put a bar around; bar about; debar.
forshutverb(transitive) To shut off or out; preclude; prohibit.
embarnoun(archaic, transitive) To enclose (as though behind bars); to imprison.
forecloseverb(transitive, law) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on.
excludeverb(transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
shutverb(transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses.
abridgeverb(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
outbarverb(obsolete) To bar out (shut out).
shut outverb(transitive) To prevent from entering; to block or exclude.
unbarverb(transitive) To unlock or unbolt a door that had been locked or bolted with a bar.
barriernounA structure that bars passage.
shut awayverbTo isolate (someone) in a closed-off area or room.
shut upverb(ergative, derogatory, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise.
forbidverb(transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
cancelnoun(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

Translate “Forbar” into Another Language

Pick a language — the word will be pre-filled in the translator.