When an object is barred, it is said to be firmly fastened, sealed or secured against opening. Barred also means barricaded. The purpose of putting a barricade is to prevent the entry or exit or a course of action. Streets are barricaded by the police to control the crowd or vehicular traffic during the situation of riots or when they receive instructions to declare a curfew from a particular time to a particular time, or even an indefinite curfew, in the city.
Barred is the synonym of the words banned and debarred. To bar somebody from doing something also means to ban or debar him or her from doing that. To supply something with bars is also to bar it.
Students who are caught using unfair means in the examinations are barred from appearing for the examinations until such time that the concerned school or university authorities deem them fit to do so again.
The cricketers and athletes from various countries have been in the news from time to time because of being barred from playing cricket due to their involvement in the match-fixing and betting scandal and participating in athletic events because of testing positive for using banned performance-enhancing drugs respectively.
Barred is the synonym of the words banned and debarred. To bar somebody from doing something also means to ban or debar him or her from doing that. To supply something with bars is also to bar it.
Students who are caught using unfair means in the examinations are barred from appearing for the examinations until such time that the concerned school or university authorities deem them fit to do so again.
The cricketers and athletes from various countries have been in the news from time to time because of being barred from playing cricket due to their involvement in the match-fixing and betting scandal and participating in athletic events because of testing positive for using banned performance-enhancing drugs respectively.