barred

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of bar. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.

   The guards barred the entrance during the storm.

   Heavy gates barred the way into the old castle.

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2. 2
   adjective

   Stopped or blocked from going somewhere or doing something.

   Like a locked door that keeps you from coming in.

   The injured player was barred from the rest of the season.

   With every road barred by snow, the family stayed home.

   Similarbanned, excluded, blocked

3. 3
   adjective

   Having stripes or lines across it.

   Like a zebra's coat, with stripe after stripe.

   The hawk's barred tail made it easy to identify.

   She wore a barred scarf of blue and white.

   Similarstriped, banded, stripy

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4. 4
   adjectiveslang

   Drunk or high from taking the drug Xanax.

   Like feeling very sleepy and slow after taking strong medicine.

   He was completely barred by the time the party ended.

   She got barred over the weekend and slept through Sunday.

   Similarhigh

   Oppositesober

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5. 5
   adjective

   Using thick lines instead of black squares to show where words start and end in a puzzle.

   Like drawing thick walls between rooms instead of painting some rooms black.

   Many British crosswords use a barred grid instead of a blocked one.

   Solvers found the barred layout harder than the usual black-square design.

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