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禁止 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ban verb To officially forbid something.
  • convict verb To find someone guilty of a crime in a court of law.
  • damn interjection Used to express anger, frustration, or surprise.
  • defense noun The action of protecting someone or something from attack or harm.
  • doom noun A terrible fate that seems certain and impossible to avoid, especially death or destruction.
  • enjoin verb To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
  • forbid verb To order someone not to do something; to prohibit.
  • forfend verb To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
  • injunction noun A court order that requires someone to do something or, more often, to stop doing something.
  • interdict noun A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.
  • ordinance noun A local law, passed by e.g. a city.
  • prohibit verb To forbid something officially, usually by law or rule.
  • prohibition noun An act of forbidding something, or a rule that forbids it.
  • proscribe verb To forbid or prohibit.

Senses

禁止 is used for these senses in English:

  • ban A prohibition.
  • ban (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
  • board up (transitive) To block doors or windows with boards, either to prevent access or as protection from storms, etc.
  • convict (chiefly, religion, ethics) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
  • damn To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
  • defense (obsolete) A prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
  • doom (transitive) To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.
  • enjoin (transitive, legal) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

ban — full definition

  1. verb To officially forbid something.
  2. noun An official prohibition.

convict — full definition

  1. verb To find someone guilty of a crime in a court of law.
  2. noun A person who has been found guilty of a crime and is serving a sentence.

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