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prohibit
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Latin prohibeo (“I fend off, prevent, prohibit”) (through past participle prohibitus).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p???h?b?t/, /p????h?b?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /p?o??h?b?t/, /p???h?b?t/
- Rhymes: -?b?t
Verb
prohibit (third-person singular simple present prohibits, present participle prohibiting, simple past and past participle prohibited)
- (transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
- Synonyms: ban, disallow, forbid, proscribe
- Antonyms: allow, authorize
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:prohibit
Related terms
Translations
See also
- interdict
- debar
- prevent
- hinder
Further reading
- prohibit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- prohibit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /p?o.i?bit/
- (Central) IPA(key): /p?u.i?bit/
- Rhymes: -it
Adjective
prohibit (feminine prohibida, masculine plural prohibits, feminine plural prohibides)
- forbidden, outlawed
Verb
prohibit m (feminine prohibida, masculine plural prohibits, feminine plural prohibides)
- past participle of prohibir
Romanian
Etymology
Past participle of prohibi.
Adjective
prohibit m or n (feminine singular prohibit?, masculine plural prohibi?i, feminine and neuter plural prohibite)
- prohibited
Declension
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- what prohibits you from getting a passport
denounce
English
Etymology
From Old French denuncier, from Latin d?n?nti? (“to announce, to denounce, to threaten”), from de + n?nti? (“to announce, to report, to denounce”), from n?ntius (“messenger, message”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di?na?ns/, /d??na?ns/
- Rhymes: -a?ns
Verb
denounce (third-person singular simple present denounces, present participle denouncing, simple past and past participle denounced)
- (transitive, obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
- (transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
- to denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward
- 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.
- (transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
- (transitive, obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.
- (transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
- (US, historical) To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.
Synonyms
- attack, charge, condemn, criticize, damn, decry, discredit, inveigh against, proscribe, report
Related terms
- denunciate
Derived terms
- denouncement
- denouncer
Related terms
Translations
See also
- announce
- enounce
- pronounce
- renounce
References
- denounce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- denounce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- enounced, unencode
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