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PROHIBIT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Command against

Example:

Dad nixed our plans

Synonyms:

disallow; forbid; interdict; nix; prohibit; proscribe; veto

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

command; require (make someone do something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "prohibit"):

ban (prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure)

bar; debar; exclude (prevent from entering; keep out)

enjoin (issue an injunction)

criminalise; criminalize; illegalise; illegalize; outlaw (declare illegal; outlaw)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue prohibit the movie

Derivation:

prohibition (the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof))

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 Context examples: 

Because horses are prohibited from grazing in designated grazing areas, to prevent them from competing for food with cattle, some farmers have been letting horses graze unattended in forests.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

All commercial resource extraction activities, including commercial fishing and any future mineral extraction, are prohibited in the expansion area, as they are within the boundaries of the existing monument.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)

The second day brought them into the cherished, or the prohibited, county of Somerset, for as such was it dwelt on by turns in Marianne's imagination; and in the forenoon of the third they drove up to Cleveland.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Some letters had passed between her and her brother, in consequence of Marianne's illness; and in the first of John's, there had been this sentence:— We know nothing of our unfortunate Edward, and can make no enquiries on so prohibited a subject, but conclude him to be still at Oxford; which was all the intelligence of Edward afforded her by the correspondence, for his name was not even mentioned in any of the succeeding letters.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Prohibited! nonsense!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Sitting with her on Sunday evening—a wet Sunday evening—the very time of all others when, if a friend is at hand, the heart must be opened, and everything told; no one else in the room, except his mother, who, after hearing an affecting sermon, had cried herself to sleep, it was impossible not to speak; and so, with the usual beginnings, hardly to be traced as to what came first, and the usual declaration that if she would listen to him for a few minutes, he should be very brief, and certainly never tax her kindness in the same way again; she need not fear a repetition; it would be a subject prohibited entirely: he entered upon the luxury of relating circumstances and sensations of the first interest to himself, to one of whose affectionate sympathy he was quite convinced.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And for the world you would not get out without the key and without Mr. Rushworth's authority and protection, or I think you might with little difficulty pass round the edge of the gate, here, with my assistance; I think it might be done, if you really wished to be more at large, and could allow yourself to think it not prohibited.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)