Synonyms for prohibit
proʊˈhɪb ɪtpro·hib·it

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1. prohibitverb

   Synonyms:
   disallow, ban, forbid

2. prohibitverb

   To forbid, disallow, or proscribe; to make illegal or illicit.

   The restaurant prohibits smoking on the patio.

   Synonyms:
   disallow, forbid, ban

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1. prohibit

   To prohibit is to give some formal command against, and especially to make some authoritative legal enactment against. Debar is said of persons, disallow of acts; one is debarred from anything when shut off, as by some irresistible authority or necessity; one is prohibited from an act in express terms; he may be debarred by silent necessity. An act is disallowed by the authority that might have allowed it; the word is especially applied to acts which are done before they are pronounced upon; thus, a government may disallow the act of its commander in the field or its admiral on the high seas. Inhibit and interdict are chiefly known by their ecclesiastical use. As between forbid and prohibit, forbid is less formal and more personal, prohibit more official and judicial, with the implication of readiness to use such force as may be needed to give effect to the enactment; a parent forbids a child to take part in some game or to associate with certain companions; the slave-trade is now prohibited by the leading nations of the world. Many things are prohibited by law which can not be wholly prevented, as gambling and prostitution; on the other hand, things may be prevented which are not prohibited, as the services of religion, the payment of debts, or military conquest. That which is precluded need not be prohibited. Compare ABOLISH; HINDER; PREVENT.

   Synonyms:
   debar, disallow, forbid, hinder, inhibit, interdict, preclude, prevent

   Antonyms:
   allow, authorize, command, consent to, direct, empower, enjoin, give consent, give leave, give permission, let, license, order, permit, put up with, require, sanction, suffer, tolerate, warrant

   Preposition:
   An act is prohibited by law; a person is prohibited by law from doing a certain act. Prohibit was formerly construed, as forbid still is, with the infinitive, but the construction with from and the verbal noun has now entirely superseded the older usage.

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1. prohibit

   Synonyms:
   forbid, interdict, debar, hinder, check, prevent, disallow, inhibit

   Antonyms:
   permit, grant, allow, sanction

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1. forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow, nixverb

   command against

   "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans"

   Synonyms:
   blackball, interdict, forestall, disallow, preclude, nix, negative, prevent, proscribe, veto, foreclose, forbid

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1. prohibitverb

   Synonyms:
   hinder, prevent, debar, preclude, restrain

2. prohibitverb

   Synonyms:
   forbid, inhibit, disallow, interdict

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1. prohibitverb

   Synonyms:
   forbid

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1. List of paraphrases for "prohibit":

   ban, prohibiting, forbid, prohibition, banning, prohibits, prohibited, outlaw, proscribe, interdict, prevent, injunct, forbidden, disallow, preclude

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1. Prohibit

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1. Volodymyr Solohub:

   The value of impartial and objective journalism cannot be underestimated in this particular war, [Putin] is tightening the screws, he’s passing these laws that prohibit calling what is happening in Ukraine a war.

2. Claude Adrien Helvetius:

   To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

3. Amy Klobuchar:

   He was a dedicated legislator who was always guided by his devotion to bipartisanship and improving people’s lives, his work to advance the Americans with Disabilities Act and prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities changed millions of lives for the better and made our nation stronger.

4. Clay Jenkins:

   But the Governor has also attempted to prohibit local elected officials from making a different decision, in response to local conditions, to protect their own communities.

5. Justice William J. Brennan:

   If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.