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Ban
ban
Ban definitions
verb
bans
banning
banned
ban
- officially or legally prohibit (something)
"parking is banned around the harbour in summer"
prohibit forbid veto proscribe disallow outlaw make illegal embargo place an embargo on bar debar block stop put a stop to put an end to suppress interdict- officially prevent (someone) from doing something
"her son was banned for life from the Centre"
noun
ban
bans
bani
- an official or legal prohibition
"a proposed ban on cigarette advertising"
prohibition veto proscription embargo bar suppression stoppage interdict interdiction moratorium injunction- an official exclusion of a person from an organization, country, or activity
"a ban on dangerous jet-ski riders"
- a sentence of outlawry
"the Presbyterians were under the ban of the law"
- a curse
"the land might be smitten by the ban which once fell upon the Canaanites"