Allow and Bar

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Allow

Allow verb - To give permission to.
Usage example: a boarding school that does not allow students to go on weekend trips without written permission
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Antonyms for Allow
Bar is an antonym for allow.
Nearby Words: allowance, allowable, allowing

Bar

Bar verb - To order not to do or use or to be done or used.
Usage example: corporal punishment has long been barred in most public schools
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Synonyms for Bar
Antonyms for Bar
Allow is an antonym for bar in topics: exclude, secure, prohibit.
Nearby Word: barroom
Similar words of allow

Similar words of bar

Common collocations

children allow children bar children
passage allow passage bar passage
time allow time bar time
use allow use bar use
Other words: way, world, anyone, guns, doors.

Both words in one sentence

  • Bad-Guy Bar The Black Mask, a magically self-relocating bar that only those it wants to allow in can find.
    Source: Bad-Guy Bar
  • Combo Breaker The Bleach fighting games for Nintendo DS allow players to escape combos at the cost of a super bar.
    Source: Combo Breaker
  • Spikes of Doom They seem so at first in the beginning of the game, but increasing your health bar will eventually allow you to survive them.
    Source: Spikes of Doom
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Antonyms for allow


Antonyms for bar

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