kieltää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abjure verb To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.
- abnegate verb To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
- ban verb To officially forbid something.
- bar noun A place that sells alcoholic drinks to be consumed on the premises, or the counter inside it.
- deny verb To state that something is not true.
- disavow verb To formally deny responsibility for or support of something.
- disown verb To refuse to acknowledge someone, especially a family member, as belonging to you anymore.
- 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.
- negate verb To cancel out or make ineffective.
- outlaw noun A person who has broken the law and is hiding or on the run from it.
- prohibit verb To forbid something officially, usually by law or rule.
- proscribe verb To forbid or prohibit.
- refute verb To prove that a claim or argument is false or wrong.
- renege verb To break a promise or go back on an agreement.
- renounce verb To formally give up a right, title, or claim.
- reprobate adj Rejected; cast off as worthless.
- repudiate verb To reject a claim, idea or association firmly and publicly, and to state that you want nothing to do with it.
- taboo noun A subject, word, or action that is avoided or forbidden because of strong social or cultural disapproval.
Senses
kieltää is used for these senses in English:
- abjure To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate. [from 15th c.]
- abnegate (transitive) To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience). [First attested in the early 17th century.]
- abnegate (transitive) To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
- ban (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
- bar (transitive) To prohibit.
- deny (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
- disavow (transitive) To deny; to show the contrary of; to deny legitimacy or achievement of any kind.
- disown (transitive) To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
abjure — full definition
- verb To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.
- verb To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw.
- verb To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion).
- verb Especially in abjure the realm: to swear an oath to leave (a place) forever.
abnegate — full definition
- verb To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
- verb To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.