banning

Verb

ban (third-person singular simple present bans, present participle banning, simple past and past participle banned)

1. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
   • Bare feet are banned in this establishment.

   Synonyms:

   forbid, prohibit, disallow

   Antonyms:

   allow, permit

2. (obsolete, transitive) To summon; to call out.
3. (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
4. (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
   • They will curse and ban[…]even into the deep pit of hell, all that gainsay their appetite.c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, a sermon
5. (ambitransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
   • :“I seldom ban, sir,” said he to the man; “but if you play any of your hound's-foot tricks, and leave puir Berwick before he's sorted, to rin after spuilzie, deil be wi' me if I do not give your craig a thraw”1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...

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