- ban
- v1. prohibit, forbid, interdict, outlaw, taboo, proscribe; disallow, reject, veto; prevent, preclude, make impossible, Archaic. forfend, inhibit; ostracize, exclude, shut out, debar, bar, segregate; banish, exile, expel, throw out, kick out, deport.n2. prohibition, interdiction, interdict, forbid-dance, outlawry, taboo, proscription, embargo; excommunication, banishment, exclusion, exception, ostracism, segregation, debarment, omission; disallowance, rejection, veto; prevention, preclusion, inhibition.3. censure, condemnation, disapproval, reprehension, reprobation, reproof; denunciation, objurgation, Sl. put-down.4. announcement, proclamation, pronouncement, notice; decree, ordinance, edict, decretal, Roman Cath. Ch. bull; formal order, Law. writ, Law. breve.5. curse, malediction, execration, anathema, fulmi-nation, imprecation, Archaic. malison.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.