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UNBAR
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Irregular inflected forms: unbarred
, unbarring
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they unbar
... he / she / it unbars
Past simple: unbarred
-ing form: unbarring
Sense 1
Meaning:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "unbar" is one way to...):
open; open up (cause to open or to become open)
"Unbar" entails doing...:
undo (cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They want to unbar the doors
Antonym:
bar (secure with, or as if with, bars)