Synonyms of the word

interdict

• n. A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power…
• v. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services;…
• v. (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
• v. (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something.
• v. (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply…

animadversion

• n. (countable) A criticism, a critical remark.
• n. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being animadversive.

ban

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
• v. (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
• v. (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
• v. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
• v. (transitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
• n. prohibition.
• n. A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to…
• n. The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable…
• n. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
• n. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid…
• n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
• n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
• n. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms…
• n. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th…

censure

• n. The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
• n. An official reprimand.
• n. Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
• n. (obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
• v. To criticize harshly.
• v. To formally rebuke.
• v. (obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.

command

• n. An order to do something.
• n. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
• n. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
• n. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
• n. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
• n. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer;…
• n. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
• n. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform…
• n. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
• v. (transitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
• v. (transitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have…
• v. (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
• v. (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
• v. (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
• v. (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
• v. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.

compel

• v. (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.
• v. (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
• v. (transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.
• v. (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
• v. (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
• v. (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
• v. (obsolete) To call forth; to summon.

destroy

• v. (transitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
• v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
• v. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
• v. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
• v. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
• v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
• v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.

destruct

• v. (transitive) To intentionally cause the destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To self-destruct.

disallow

• v. To refuse to allow.
• v. To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper.

forbid

• v. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
• v. (transitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
• v. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.

interdiction

• n. the act of interdicting or something interdicted.
• n. the destruction of an enemy's military potential before it can be used.

prohibit

• v. (transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.

prohibition

• n. An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
• n. A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.

proscribe

• v. (transitive) To forbid or prohibit.
• v. (transitive) To denounce.
• v. (transitive) To banish or exclude.

proscription

• n. A prohibition.
• n. (historical) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.
• n. The act of proscribing, or its result.
• n. A decree or law that prohibits.

require

• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request.
• v. To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.
• v. Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
• v. To demand of (someone) to do something.

veto

• n. A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
• n. An invocation of that right.
• n. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
• v. (transitive) To use a veto against.