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PROSCRIBE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they proscribe ... he / she / it proscribes
Past simple: proscribed
Past participle: proscribed
-ing form: proscribing
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 "proscribe" is one way to...):
command; require (make someone do something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "proscribe"):
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
Derivation:
proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)
proscription (a decree that prohibits something)
