UNBAR (unbarred, unbarring)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: unbarred    , unbarring   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does unbar mean? 

• UNBAR (verb)
  The verb UNBAR has 1 sense:

1. remove a bar from (a door)

  Familiarity information: UNBAR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNBAR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they unbar    ... he / she / it unbars   
Past simple: unbarred   
Past participle: unbarred   
-ing form: unbarring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove a bar from (a door)

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)

 Context examples 

He could not get help from outside, even if he had some one whom he could trust, without the unbarring of doors and considerable risk of detection.

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