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BANNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Forbidden by law
Synonyms:
banned; prohibited
Classified under:
Similar:
illegal (prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb ban
Context examples:
NASA research shows Earth's atmosphere contains an unexpectedly large amount of an ozone-depleting compound from an unknown source decades after the compound was banned worldwide.
(Ozone-depleting compound persists, NASA)
Although shark fishing is banned in Brazil, the clandestine market continues, driven partly by the high prices shark fins fetch: up to US$1,000 per kilogram on the international market.
(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)
To his sisters, meantime, he was somewhat kinder than usual: as if afraid that mere coldness would not sufficiently convince me how completely I was banished and banned, he added the force of contrast; and this I am sure he did not by force, but on principle.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The Samoan government declared a state of emergency on November 15, shut down all schools as of November 17, and later banned children from public gatherings in an effort to curb the spread of the disease.
(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)
