debar
- v bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- v prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
- v prevent from entering; keep out
- He rapidly became a rich man, so rich that it was said that his money alone was enough to debar him from the Spanish Court.
- Retorted Macmillan with dignity: "I did not think that a mere accident of birth should debar me from the right to choose the man I wanted at my side.