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The act of forbidding; prohibition
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- The act of forbidding; prohibition
- An official prohibition or edict against something.
A prescribed medicine or other treatment:
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- A prescribed medicine or other treatment:
- A doctor's written direction for the preparation and use of medicine, the grinding of lenses for eyeglasses, etc.
- An ophthalmologist's or optometrist's written instruction, as for the grinding of corrective lenses.
Censure, condemnation, or disapproval expressed especially by public opinion.
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- Censure, condemnation, or disapproval expressed especially by public opinion.
- Strong public disapproval or condemnation intended to prevent something
- An official order forbidding something; prohibition
The act of repudiating or the state of being repudiated.
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- The act of repudiating or the state of being repudiated.
- The refusal, especially by public authorities, to acknowledge a contract or debt.
- Words or actions of a party to a contract that indicate the intention of that person to fail to carry out the contract in the future; a threat to breach a contract. Words or actions of a party to a contract that indicate the intention of that person to fail to carry out the contract in the future; a threat to breach a contract.
A congressional act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The US Congress passed the act in 1919; it took effect with the Eighteenth Amendment in 1920 and was repealed by the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933.
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- A congressional act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The US Congress passed the act in 1919; it took effect with the Eighteenth Amendment in 1920 and was repealed by the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933.
- (Proper) An act of Congress, passed in 1919 and repealed in 1933, enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages
Moderation and self-restraint, as in behavior or expression.
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- Moderation and self-restraint, as in behavior or expression.
- The state or quality of being temperate; self-restraint in conduct, expression, indulgence of the appetites, etc.; moderation
- Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
refusal
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Strong public disapproval or condemnation intended to prevent something
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- Strong public disapproval or condemnation intended to prevent something
- A prohibition imposed by law or official decree.
- An official order forbidding something; prohibition
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The act of forbidding; prohibition
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- The act of forbidding; prohibition
- An official prohibition or edict against something.
The blocking or limiting of the activity of an organ, tissue, or cell of the body, caused by the action of a nerve or neuron or by the release of a substance such as a hormone or neurotransmitter.
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- The blocking or limiting of the activity of an organ, tissue, or cell of the body, caused by the action of a nerve or neuron or by the release of a substance such as a hormone or neurotransmitter.
- Anything that inhibits, esp., a mental or psychological process that restrains or suppresses an action, emotion, or thought
- (--- Biology) The condition in which or the process by which an enzyme, for example, is inhibited.
Prohibition or interdiction
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- Prohibition or interdiction
- The act of proscribing; prohibition.
- The condition of having been proscribed; outlawry.
An object, word, or act protected by such a prohibition.
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- An object, word, or act protected by such a prohibition.
- A ban or inhibition resulting from social custom or emotional aversion.
- Among some Polynesian peoples, a sacred prohibition put upon certain people, things, or acts which makes them untouchable, unmentionable, etc.
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Find another word for prohibition. In this page you can discover 20 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for prohibition, like: forbiddance, interdiction, prescription, ban, repudiation, volstead act, temperance, Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Amendment; the Noble Experiment, the Lost Cause and the Eighteenth Amusement.
