| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Something that impedes or prevents entry or passage: bar, barricade, barrier, block, blockage, clog, hamper, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, snag, stop, traverse. See HELP, OPEN. 2. A solid structure that encloses an area or separates one area from another: barrier, partition. See INCLUDE, THING. | | VERB: | 1. To shut in with or as if with bars: bar, confine, lock. See FREE. 2. To confine within a limited area. In or up: cage, coop (in or up), enclose, fence (in), immure, mew (up), pen2, shut in, shut up. See FREE. 3. To separate with or as if with a wall: fence, partition. See INCLUDE.
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