Meaning & use
Embar
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To shut in or enclose with or as if with bars; to obstruct or block.
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The old text describes how the garrison would embar the city gates each night.
Thick brambles seemed to embar every path through the forest.
A note on using this word
Now archaic, 'embar' survives mainly in older literature and legal texts; the more familiar relative today is 'embargo,' which shares the same root sense of blocking or restraining.
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encloseobstruct
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