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DISBAR
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Irregular inflected forms: disbarred , disbarring
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they disbar ... he / she / it disbars
Past simple: disbarred
Past participle: disbarred
-ing form: disbarring
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action
Example:
The corrupt lawyer was disbarred
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "disbar" is one way to...):
disqualify (declare unfit)
Domain category:
law; practice of law (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Derivation:
disbarment (the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law)
