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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

absurd, banded, banned, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, brinded, brindle, brindled, cabined, caged, cancellated, cloistered, closed-in, closed-out, confined, contraband, contrary to reason, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, crossbarred, debarred, deported, ejected, enclosed, excluded, exiled, expelled, fenced, filigreed, forbade, forbid, forbidden, grated, gridded, hedged, hemmed, hopeless, illegal, illicit, immured, impossible, imprisoned, incarcerated, inconceivable, jailed, laced, lacelike, lacy, latticelike, leaguered, left out, liquidated, listed, logically impossible, marbled, marbleized, meshed, meshy, mewed, mullioned, netlike, netted, netty, nonpermissible, not in it, not included, not permitted, not possible, off limits, out of bounds, outlawed, oxymoronic, paled, paradoxical, penned, pent-up, plexiform, precluded, preposterous, prohibited, purged, quarantined, railed, restrained, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform, ridiculous, ruled out, ruled-out, self-contradictory, shut out, shut-in, streaked, streaky, striatal, striate, striated, strigate, strigose, striolate, striped, stripy, tabby, taboo, tabooed, unallowed, unauthorized, under the ban, unimaginable, unlawful, unlicensed, unpermissible, unsanctioned, unthinkable, untouchable, veined, verboten, vetoed, walled, walled-in, watered

Dictionary Results for barred:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

barred
    adj 1: preventing entry or exit or a course of action; "a
           barricaded street"; "barred doors"; "the blockaded
           harbor" [syn: barricaded, barred, blockaded]
    2: marked with stripes or bands

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Bar \Bar\ (b[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barred (b[aum]rd); p.
   pr. & vb. n. Barring.] [ F. barrer. See Bar, n.]
   1. To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
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   2. To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to
      obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance
      of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars
      my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the
      plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.
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            He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened
            to bar it in its dungeon.             --Hawthorne.
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   3. To except; to exclude by exception.
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            Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me
            By what we do to-night.               --Shak.
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   4. To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
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            For the sake of distinguishing the feet more
            clearly, I have barred them singly.   --Burney.
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