Synonyms of the word

ban

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
• v. (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
• v. (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
• v. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
• v. (transitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
• n. prohibition.
• n. A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to…
• n. The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable…
• n. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
• n. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid…
• n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
• n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
• n. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms…
• n. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th…

baccalaureate

• n. A bachelor's degree.
• n. A high school completion exam and qualification awarded in many countries (e.g. Finland, France, Moldova,…
• n. (US) A farewell address in the form of a sermon delivered to a graduating class.

banish

• v. (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
• v. To expel, especially from the mind.

banning

• v. present participle of ban.
• n. The act by which something is banned; a prohibition.

blackball

• n. A rejection, a vote against admitting someone.
• n. A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
• n. The act of so rejecting someone.
• n. A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
• n. A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
• v. (transitive) To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
• v. (transitive) To ostracize.

censor

• n. (historical) A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of…
• n. An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content.
• n. One who censures or condemns.
• n. (psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the…
• v. (transitive) To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either…
• v. (transitive) To remove objectionable content.

criminalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of criminalize.

criminalize

• v. (transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.

decree

• n. An edict or law.
• n. (law) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
• n. (law) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
• v. To command by a decree.

disallow

• v. To refuse to allow.
• v. To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper.

edict

• n. a proclamation of law or other authoritative command.

expel

• v. To eject or erupt.
• v. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
• v. (transitive) To remove from membership.
• v. (transitive) To deport.

fiat

• n. An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
• n. Authorization, permission or (official) sanction.
• n. (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
• n. (English law) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
• v. (transitive, used in academic debate and role-playing games) To make (something) happen.

forbid

• v. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
• v. (transitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
• v. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.

forbiddance

• n. an official prohibition or edict against something.

forbidding

• adj. highly unpleasant or disagreeable.
• adj. threatening or menacing.
• v. present participle of forbid.
• n. The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.

illegalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of illegalize.

illegalize

• v. To make illegal; to prohibit by law, to criminalize.

interdict

• n. A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power…
• v. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services;…
• v. (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
• v. (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something.
• v. (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply…

order

• n. (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
• n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
• n. (countable) A command.
• n. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
• n. (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion…
• n. (countable) An association of knights.
• n. any group of people with common interests.
• n. (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual,…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon…
• n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row;…
• n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry;…
• n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon…
• n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
• n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier,…
• n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function…
• n. (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
• n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
• n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
• n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered…
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials…
• v. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
• v. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
• v. (transitive) To issue a command to.
• v. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
• v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

ostracise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of ostracize.

ostracize

• v. To exclude (a person) from society or from a community, by not communicating with (them) or by refusing…
• v. (historical) To ban a person from the city of Athens for ten years.

outlaw

• n. A fugitive from the law.
• n. (historical) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without…
• n. A person who operates outside established norms.
• n. A wild horse.
• n. (humorous) An in-law: a relative by marriage.
• n. (slang) A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
• v. To declare illegal.
• v. To place a ban upon.
• v. To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement.
• v. To deprive of legal force.

prohibit

• v. (transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.

prohibition

• n. An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
• n. A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.

proscribe

• v. (transitive) To forbid or prohibit.
• v. (transitive) To denounce.
• v. (transitive) To banish or exclude.

proscription

• n. A prohibition.
• n. (historical) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.
• n. The act of proscribing, or its result.
• n. A decree or law that prohibits.

rescript

• n. (historical law) A clarification of a point of law by a monarch issued upon formal consultation by a lower…
• n. (canon law) An ad hoc reply of a pope to some specific question of canon law or morality, without precedential…
• n. A duplicate copy of a legal document.
• n. A rewriting, a document copied or written again.
• v. (transitive) To script again or anew.

shun

• v. (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently.
• v. (transitive) To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
• v. (transitive) To screen, hide.
• v. (transitive) To shove, push.

veto

• n. A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
• n. An invocation of that right.
• n. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
• v. (transitive) To use a veto against.