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What does debar mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
  2. (transitive) to hinder or prevent.
  3. (US, law, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.
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I do think, however that a ballot on the suitability of some newly ermined people would debar some before the ermine was purchased.
Why should going to Eton and Oxford be seen to debar a person from being elected as a Prime Minister?
The EC should debar him from contesting elections for violating the model code of conduct.
The cynodonts are sometimes thought to be mammalian ancestors, but there are minor features which debar them, some believe, from such position.
She believed his decision to debar the Filipino athletes from the games was premature.
My suggestion is that the Royal Society should debar him from any committee that makes decisions about fellowships, prizes or policy.

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