Synonyms of the word prohibit


PROHIBITCOMMAND - COMPEL - DISALLOW - FORBID - INTERDICT - PROSCRIBE - REQUIRE - VETO

prohibit

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

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.

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.

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…

proscribe

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

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.

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