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prohibit

UK/pɹəˈhɪbɪt//pɹoʊˈhɪbɪt/

prohibit verb: to forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.

Verb

prohibit (third-person singular simple present prohibits, present participle prohibiting, simple past and past participle prohibited)

  1. (transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
    • The restaurant prohibits smoking on the patio.
    • I was prohibited to come.
    Antonyms:
    allow, authorize, permit

prohibit meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

prohibit in Tamil

தடை செய், தடு

prohibit in Urdu

ممنوع کرنا, منع کرنا, ناجائز قرار دینا, روکنا

prohibit in Bengali

to prohibit, to forbid
নিষিদ্ধ করা niśiddho kora

prohibit in Telugu

to prohibit, forbid, ban
నిషేధించు niṣēdhiñcu
More languagesFewer languages
prohibit in Malayalam
നിരോധിക്കുക nirōdhikkuka, വിലക്കുക vilakkuka
prohibit in Kannada
ತಡೆ, ಬಿಡದಿರು, ಮಾಡಗೊಡದಿರು, ಪ್ರತಿಷೇಧಿಸು
prohibit in Punjabi
ਠਾਕਣਾ ṭhākăṇā
prohibit in Nepali
निषेध गर्ने
prohibit in Arabic
مَنَعَ manaʕa
prohibit in Malay
mengharamkan
prohibit in Indonesian
melarang
prohibit in Thai
ห้าม hâam

Examples of prohibit in a sentence

  • Crossing the border without permission is prohibited.
  • The Foreign Assistance Act bars assistance to any country that “prohibits or otherwise restricts, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian assistance.”2024 April 11, Jennifer Hansler, “USAID administrator says it is ‘credible’ to assess famine is already occurring in parts of Gaza”, in CNN:

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Synonyms of prohibit

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Antonyms

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Forms of prohibit

third-person singular presentprohibits
present participleprohibiting
past participleprohibited
pastprohibited

Past tense of prohibit: prohibited

Origin of prohibit

From Middle English prohibiten, from Latin prohibeō (“to fend off, prevent, prohibit”) (through past participle prohibitus).

Words formed from prohibit

Words that rhyme with prohibit

Questions about prohibit

What does prohibit mean?
Prohibit means to forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
What is prohibit in Tamil?
Prohibit in Tamil is தடை செய், தடு. See Prohibit meaning in Tamil.
How do you use prohibit in a sentence?
Crossing the border without permission is prohibited.
What part of speech is prohibit?
Prohibit is a verb.
How do you pronounce prohibit?
Prohibit is pronounced /pɹəˈhɪbɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of prohibit?
The past tense of prohibit is prohibited.

Words near prohibit in the dictionary

  1. proherbicide
  2. proherbicides
  3. proheterocyst
  4. proheterocysts
  5. prohi
  6. prohibit
  7. prohibitable
  8. prohibited
  9. prohibitedness
  10. prohibiter
  11. prohibiters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prohibit (page history and authors); prohibit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prohibit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); নিষিদ্ধ করা (Bengali) (page history and authors); నిషేధించు (Telugu) (page history and authors); prohibit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਠਾਕਣਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); prohibit (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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