BARRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barred mean? 

• BARRED (adjective)
  The adjective BARRED has 2 senses:

1. preventing entry or exit or a course of action

2. marked with stripes or bands

  Familiarity information: BARRED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Preventing entry or exit or a course of action

Synonyms:

barred; barricaded; blockaded

Context example:

the blockaded harbor

Similar:

obstructed (shut off to passage or view or hindered from action)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked with stripes or bands

Similar:

marked (having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination)

 Context examples 

"Yet would to God there was an end of all this!" added Mr. Rochester, as he closed and barred the heavy yard-gates.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For a time, it seemed that the spotted owl was also threatened by competition from the faster-breeding barred owl, which had moved west into its territory.

(Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all, Wikinews)

Then it was barred after them.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a six-foot wall which barred our path, but he sprang to the top and over.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“What a place is this that you inhabit, my son!” said he, looking mournfully at the barred windows and wretched appearance of the room.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A long stretch of road lay before us, barred with the shadows of wayside trees.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All morning they rode down a broad and winding road, barred with the shadows of poplars.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes darted forward and barred their way.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then I walked across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded across it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He ran him into a blind channel, in the bed of the creek where a timber jam barred the way.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)