During prohibition days, racketeers used to rub each other out to get control of the rum-running racket.
Source: tatoeba (18809)
Prohibition
//ˌpɹəʊ(h)ɪˈbɪʃən//
Synonyms for "prohibition" (100 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (50)
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1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
10 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
123 translations across 55 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- ndalim noun (act of prohibiting)
- ndalim noun (law that prohibits something)
Arabic
4 entries- سورة التحريم name (66th sura of the Qur'an)
- مَنْع اَلْكُحُول name (period)
- حَظْر noun (act of prohibiting)
- حَظْر noun (law that prohibits something)
Armenian
1 entries- արգելք noun (act of prohibiting)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- qadağan noun (act of prohibiting)
- yasaq noun (act of prohibiting)
Belarusian
2 entries- забаро́на noun (act of prohibiting)
- забаро́на noun (law that prohibits something)
Bulgarian
4 entries- забра́на noun (act of prohibiting)
- забра́на noun (law that prohibits something)
- запреще́ние noun (act of prohibiting)
- запреще́ние noun (law that prohibits something)
Catalan
2 entries- interdicció noun (act of prohibiting)
- prohibició noun (act of prohibiting)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- قەدەغە noun (law that prohibits something)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 禁戒章 name (66th sura of the Qur'an)
- 禁酒 name (period)
- 禁酒令 name (period)
- 禁令 noun (law that prohibits something)
Czech
2 entries- prohibice noun (law that prohibits something)
- zákaz noun (law that prohibits something)
Danish
2 entries- forbud noun (act of prohibiting)
- forbud noun (law that prohibits something)
Dutch
2 entries- verbod noun (act of prohibiting)
- verbod noun (law that prohibits something)
Estonian
1 entries- keeld noun (act of prohibiting)
Finnish
3 entries- kieltolain aika name (period)
- kielto noun (act of prohibiting)
- kieltolaki noun (law that prohibits something)
French
4 entries- Prohibition name (period)
- interdiction noun (act of prohibiting)
- interdiction noun (law that prohibits something)
- prohibition noun (act of prohibiting)
Georgian
1 entries- აკრძალვა noun (act of prohibiting)
German
3 entries- Alkoholprohibition name (period)
- Prohibition name (period)
- Verbot noun (law that prohibits something)
Greek
2 entries- απαγόρευση noun (act of prohibiting)
- ποτοαπαγόρευση noun (law that prohibits something)
Hindi
2 entries- निषेध noun (act of prohibiting)
- मनाही noun (act of prohibiting)
Hungarian
4 entries- szesztilalom name (period)
- alkoholtilalom noun (law that prohibits something)
- megtiltás noun (act of prohibiting)
- szesztilalom noun (law that prohibits something)
Icelandic
1 entries- bannár noun (law that prohibits something)
Irish
1 entries- crosadh noun (act of prohibiting)
Italian
1 entries- proibizione noun (act of prohibiting)
Japanese
4 entries- 禁止 name (66th sura of the Qur'an)
- 禁酒 name (period)
- 禁酒令 name (period)
- 差し止め noun (act of prohibiting)
Kazakh
2 entries- құрғақ заң name (period)
- тыйым noun (act of prohibiting)
Khmer
1 entries- បំរាម noun (act of prohibiting)
Korean
3 entries- 금주법 name (period)
- 금지 noun (act of prohibiting)
- 금지 noun (law that prohibits something)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- тыюу noun (act of prohibiting)
Latin
4 entries- interdictum noun (act of prohibiting)
- interdictum noun (law that prohibits something)
- prohibitio noun (law that prohibits something)
- vetitum noun (act of prohibiting)
Latvian
2 entries- aizliegums noun (act of prohibiting)
- liegums noun (act of prohibiting)
Lithuanian
2 entries- draudimas noun (act of prohibiting)
- uždraudimas noun (act of prohibiting)
Macedonian
1 entries- забрана noun (act of prohibiting)
Malay
1 entries- larangan noun (act of prohibiting)
Māori
1 entries- poropeihana noun (law that prohibits something)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- alkoholforbud noun (law that prohibits something)
- forbud noun (act of prohibiting)
- forbud noun (law that prohibits something)
Oromo
1 entries- dhowwaa noun (act of prohibiting)
Persian
1 entries- منع noun (act of prohibiting)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Baun noun (act of prohibiting)
Polish
2 entries- prohibicja name (period)
- zakaz noun (law that prohibits something)
Portuguese
2 entries- proibição noun (act of prohibiting)
- proibição noun (law that prohibits something)
Romanian
1 entries- interdicție noun (act of prohibiting)
Russian
4 entries- сухо́й зако́н name (period)
- запре́т noun (act of prohibiting)
- запре́т noun (law that prohibits something)
- запреще́ние noun (act of prohibiting)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- zȃbrana noun (act of prohibiting)
- zȃbrana noun (law that prohibits something)
- за̑брана noun (act of prohibiting)
- за̑брана noun (law that prohibits something)
Slovak
1 entries- zákaz noun (law that prohibits something)
Slovene
2 entries- prepoved noun (act of prohibiting)
- prepoved noun (law that prohibits something)
Spanish
2 entries- prohibición noun (act of prohibiting)
- prohibición noun (law that prohibits something)
Swedish
2 entries- förbud noun (act of prohibiting)
- förbud noun (law that prohibits something)
Tajik
1 entries- манъ noun (act of prohibiting)
Thai
2 entries- การห้าม noun (act of prohibiting)
- ข้อห้าม noun (act of prohibiting)
Turkish
1 entries- yasak noun (act of prohibiting)
Ukrainian
2 entries- заборо́на noun (act of prohibiting)
- заборо́на noun (law that prohibits something)
Uzbek
2 entries- man noun (act of prohibiting)
- taqiq noun (act of prohibiting)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cấm chỉ noun (act of prohibiting)
- sự cấm noun (act of prohibiting)
White Hmong
1 entries- caiv noun (act of prohibiting)
Zazaki
2 entries- men noun (act of prohibiting)
- tomet noun (act of prohibiting)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
The first prohibition of slavery was in the mid-nineteenth century.
Source: tatoeba (267006)
Prohibition is hereby officially prohibited.
Source: tatoeba (1490773)
During the 1920's alcohol prohibition in the United States, whiskey could be obtained legally with a doctor's prescription.
Source: tatoeba (1955836)
Showing 4 of 14 available sentences.
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