Many countries have passed laws to prohibit people from smoking in public places.
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Prohibit
//pɹoʊˈhɪbɪt//
Synonyms for "prohibit" (141 found)
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Related words (70)
hold fasthold inhold in checkhold in leashhold upignoreimpedeinhibitinterdictkeepkeep backkeep fromkeep inkeep in checkkeep offkeep outkeep under controllay under restraintleave outlock out
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make impossibleobstructobviateomitostracizeoutlawpass overpermitprecludepreventproscribepullpull inrefusereinrein inrejectrelegaterepelrepressrepudiaterestrainretardretrenchrulerule outsavesay no tosend to coventryset backshutshut outslow downsnubstave offstopstraitensuppresstaboothwartturn asideward offwithhold
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70 translations across 42 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَنَعَ verb (to proscribe officially)
Belarusian
2 entries- забараня́ць verb (to proscribe officially)
- забарані́ць verb (to proscribe officially)
Bulgarian
1 entries- забранявам verb (to proscribe officially)
Catalan
1 entries- prohibir verb (to proscribe officially)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 禁止 verb (to proscribe officially)
- 阻止 verb (to proscribe officially)
Cornish
1 entries- difen verb (to proscribe officially)
Czech
2 entries- zakazovat verb (to proscribe officially)
- zakázat verb (to proscribe officially)
Dutch
1 entries- verbieden verb (to proscribe officially)
Esperanto
1 entries- malpermesi verb (to proscribe officially)
Fataluku
1 entries- pacu verb (to proscribe officially)
Finnish
1 entries- kieltää verb (to proscribe officially)
French
2 entries- interdire verb (to proscribe officially)
- prohiber verb (to proscribe officially)
Galician
4 entries- banir verb (to proscribe officially)
- coutar verb (to proscribe officially)
- devedar verb (to proscribe officially)
- enfensar verb (to proscribe officially)
German
1 entries- verbieten verb (to proscribe officially)
Greek
1 entries- απαγορεύω verb (to proscribe officially)
Hungarian
2 entries- megtilt verb (to proscribe officially)
- tilt verb (to proscribe officially)
Indonesian
1 entries- melarang verb (to proscribe officially)
Irish
2 entries- coisc verb (to proscribe officially)
- urghair verb (to proscribe officially)
Italian
4 entries- impedire verb (to proscribe officially)
- ostacolare verb (to proscribe officially)
- proibire verb (to proscribe officially)
- vietare verb (to proscribe officially)
Japanese
2 entries- 禁じる verb (to proscribe officially)
- 禁止する verb (to proscribe officially)
Korean
1 entries- 금하다 verb (to proscribe officially)
Latin
3 entries- interdīcō verb (to proscribe officially)
- prohibeō verb (to proscribe officially)
- vetō verb (to proscribe officially)
Latvian
1 entries- aizliegt verb (to proscribe officially)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- verbidden verb (to proscribe officially)
Makasae
1 entries- bandu verb (to proscribe officially)
Malay
1 entries- mengharamkan verb (to proscribe officially)
Malayalam
2 entries- നിരോധിക്കുക verb (to proscribe officially)
- വിലക്കുക verb (to proscribe officially)
Māori
2 entries- rāhui verb (to proscribe officially)
- whakamanakore verb (to proscribe officially)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forby verb (to proscribe officially)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- forby verb (to proscribe officially)
- forbyde verb (to proscribe officially)
Old English
1 entries- forbēodan verb (to proscribe officially)
Polish
2 entries- zakazać verb (to proscribe officially)
- zakazywać verb (to proscribe officially)
Portuguese
1 entries- proibir verb (to proscribe officially)
Quechua
1 entries- amatay verb (to proscribe officially)
Romanian
1 entries- interzice verb (to proscribe officially)
Russian
2 entries- запрети́ть verb (to proscribe officially)
- запреща́ть verb (to proscribe officially)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- zabranjívati verb (to proscribe officially)
- zabrániti verb (to proscribe officially)
- забра́нити verb (to proscribe officially)
- забрањи́вати verb (to proscribe officially)
Spanish
1 entries- prohibir verb (to proscribe officially)
Swedish
1 entries- förbjuda verb (to proscribe officially)
Tetum
1 entries- bandu verb (to proscribe officially)
Thai
1 entries- ห้าม verb (to proscribe officially)
Ukrainian
2 entries- заборони́ти verb (to proscribe officially)
- забороня́ти verb (to proscribe officially)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The bad roads prohibit speeding.
Source: tatoeba (280371)
Many websites prohibit misleading usernames that imply an official role on the website such as "admin," "administrator," "webmaster," "system operator," "sysop," or "moderator."
Source: tatoeba (770346)
What the church can't prohibit it blesses.
Source: tatoeba (2949871)
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