Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To reinforce with bars of this kind.

  2. (transitive)To bar again.

    After allowing the stranger to enter, she rebarred the door.

  3. (transitive)To redistribute the notes of a musical score across the bars, e.g. when changing time signature.

Origin

Blend of reinforcing + bar. Vulgar Latin *barra

Blend of reinforcing + bar.

Vulgar Latin *barra

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Forms

rebars, rebarring, rebarred, rebarred
Base formrebar · to rebar
3rd person singularrebars
Present participlerebarring
Past simplerebarred
Past participlerebarred

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrebar
he, she, itrebars

Past simpleLesson

all personsrebarred

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave rebarred
he, she, ithas rebarred

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill rebar

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
reassignmentreassuranceC1reassureC1reawakenrebaterebelB2

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