DISBAR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected forms: disbarred , disbarring

Present simple: I / you / we / they disbar ... he / she / it disbars

Past simple: disbarred

Past participle: disbarred

-ing form: disbarring

Meaning:

Remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action

Example:

The corrupt lawyer was disbarred

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "disbar" is one way to...):

disqualify (declare unfit)

Domain category:

law; practice of law (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

disbarment (the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law)