Bar and Suffer

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

Suffer is an antonym for bar.

Nearby Word: barroom

Suffer

Suffer verb - To fail to prevent (some behavior on someone's part) especially from neglect or indifference.
Usage example: I will not suffer you to insult me so!

Bar is an antonym for suffer.

Nearby Words: suffering, sufferance, sufferer

Common collocations

time bar time suffer time
way bar way suffer way

Both words in one sentence

  • The Superman Returns game took a novel approach to this — instead of giving Supes a health bar, Metropolis itself is the life bar, and you have to let it suffer as little collateral damage as possible in order to succeed in a given mission.
  • Many of Peter Milligan's other mindblowing comics, such as Human Target, Enigma and his Batman/Detective stories (bar the one story that was part of the Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul) have not been collected or are out-of-print, or else suffer from the same fate as Shade, the Changing Man.
  • Western Animation / Korgoth of Barbaria An Arm and a Leg: Several of the mooks who attack Korgoth in the bar suffer this fate.
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