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Bar

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.

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Verb group 4

Block 84% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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Block 84% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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Obstruct 84% connected

To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing;…

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Obstruct 84% connected

To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing;…

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Broader term 33

Automatic 76% connected

Alt. of Automatical

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Barrier 76% connected

A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

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Block 76% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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Counter 76% connected

A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.

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Disallow 76% connected

To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

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Expel 76% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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Fasten 76% connected

To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Forbid 76% connected

of Forbid

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Hinderance 76% connected

Same as Hindrance.

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Hindrance 76% connected

The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.

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Impede 76% connected

To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.

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Impediment 76% connected

That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.

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Implement 76% connected

That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade…

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Interdict 76% connected

To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.

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Interference 76% connected

The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of…

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Jam 76% connected

A kind of frock for children.

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Marking 76% connected

of Mark

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Nix 76% connected

One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.

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Obstruct 76% connected

To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing;…

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Obstructer 76% connected

One who obstructs or hinders.

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Obstruction 76% connected

The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.

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Occlude 76% connected

To shut up; to close.

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Profession 76% connected

The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.

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Prohibit 76% connected

To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, an…

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Proscribe 76% connected

To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.

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Rail 76% connected

An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.

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Railing 76% connected

of Rail

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Ridge 76% connected

The back, or top of the back; a crest.

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Room 76% connected

Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a ho…

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Secure 76% connected

Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Veto 76% connected

An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

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Narrower term 32

Averting 76% connected

of Avert

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Band 76% connected

A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or con…

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Banding 76% connected

of Band

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Belaying pin 76% connected

A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.

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Bolt 76% connected

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resem…

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Buffet 76% connected

A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.

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Core 76% connected

A body of individuals; an assemblage.

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Crossbar 76% connected

A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluk…

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Crushing 76% connected

of Crush

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Debarment 76% connected

Hindrance from approach; exclusion.

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Disqualification 76% connected

The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holdin…

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Drawbar 76% connected

An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to giv…

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Fret 76% connected

See 1st Frith.

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Handspike 76% connected

A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.

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Heaver 76% connected

One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.

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Interception 76% connected

The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.

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Lever 76% connected

More agreeable; more pleasing.

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Obviation 76% connected

The act of obviating, or the state of being obviated.

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Preclusion 76% connected

The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.

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Prophylaxis 76% connected

The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease; the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health; preservative or preventi…

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Quelling 76% connected

of Quell

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Rail 76% connected

An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.

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Runway 76% connected

The channel of a stream.

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Save 76% connected

The herb sage, or salvia.

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Shackle 76% connected

Stubble.

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Stifling 76% connected

of Stifle

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Stria 76% connected

A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on…

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Striation 76% connected

The quality or condition of being striated.

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Suppression 76% connected

The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of trut…

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Tablet 76% connected

A small table or flat surface.

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Track 76% connected

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

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Manner of action 2

Close 76% connected

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

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Spike 76% connected

A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.

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Derivationally related 14

Barricade 74% connected

A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually…

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Barricade 74% connected

A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually…

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Keep 74% connected

To care; to desire.

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Keep 74% connected

To care; to desire.

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Prevention 74% connected

The act of going, or state of being, before.

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Prevention 74% connected

The act of going, or state of being, before.

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Relegation 74% connected

The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.

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Relegation 74% connected

The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.

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Stop 74% connected

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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Stop 74% connected

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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Stopper 74% connected

One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.

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Stopper 74% connected

One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.

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Stripe 74% connected

A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as…

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Stripe 74% connected

A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as…

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Containing whole 5

Court 70% connected

An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street a…

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Goal 70% connected

The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race…

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Pothouse 70% connected

An alehouse.

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Saloon 70% connected

A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amus…

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Taphouse 70% connected

A house where liquors are retailed.

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Synonym 16

Banish 92% connected

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

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Barricade 92% connected

A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually…

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Barroom 92% connected

A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

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Block 92% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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Blockade 92% connected

The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of th…

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Cake 92% connected

A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

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Debar 92% connected

To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or re…

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Exclude 92% connected

To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as,…

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Measure 92% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Prevention 92% connected

The act of going, or state of being, before.

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Relegate 92% connected

To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

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Saloon 92% connected

A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amus…

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Stop 92% connected

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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Streak 92% connected

To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

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Stripe 92% connected

A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as…

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Taproom 92% connected

A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom.

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Antonym 2

Unbar 94% connected

To remove a bar or bars from; to unbolt; to open; as, to unbar a gate.

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Unbar 94% connected

To remove a bar or bars from; to unbolt; to open; as, to unbar a gate.

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