to prohibit

Synonyms

forbid

Examples

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. Claude Adrien Helvétius

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain. Claude Adrien Helvétius

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. Freda Adler

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves. Milton Friedman

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful. Napoleon Bonaparte

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful. Leon Kass

Words in the phrase

to prohibit

Close letter words and terms

to proclaim To profint to program to propose to prove to provoke