kieltää — meaning in English

English meaning

• abjure verb To firmly reject or give up someone or something for good.
• abnegate verb To give up something, such as a right or privilege, often as an act of self-denial.
• 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 order someone firmly to do something.
• 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 ban something officially.
• 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 Thrown away as having no value.
• 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

1. verb To firmly reject or give up someone or something for good.
2. verb To formally give up a belief or opinion by swearing an oath.
3. verb To make someone take back a belief or opinion.
4. verb (especially in 'abjure the realm') To swear a formal oath to leave a place and never return.

abnegate — full definition

1. verb To give up something, such as a right or privilege, often as an act of self-denial.
2. verb To let go of something completely, handing it over or giving it up for good.

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