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BANNING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An official prohibition or edict against something

Synonyms:

ban; banning; forbiddance; forbidding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("banning" is a kind of...):

prohibition (refusal to approve or assent to)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banning"):

test ban (a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons that is mutually agreed to by countries that possess nuclear weapons)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb ban

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