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Debar

To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.

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Disallow 76% connected

To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

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Expel 76% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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Forbid 76% connected

of Forbid

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Foreclose 76% connected

To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

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Forestall 76% connected

To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

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Interdict 76% connected

To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.

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Nix 76% connected

One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.

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Preclude 76% connected

To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

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Prevent 76% connected

To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.

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Prohibit 76% connected

To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, an…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Proscribe 76% connected

To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.

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Veto 76% connected

An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

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Rusticate 76% connected

To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.

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Derivationally related 8

Avoidable 74% connected

Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.

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Avoidable 74% connected

Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.

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Debarment 74% connected

Hindrance from approach; exclusion.

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Debarment 74% connected

Hindrance from approach; exclusion.

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Suspension 74% connected

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.

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Suspension 74% connected

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.

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Entails 2

Punish 72% connected

To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; t…

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Synonym 9

Avert 92% connected

To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averte…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Avoid 92% connected

To empty.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bar 92% connected

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Deflect 92% connected

To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exclude 92% connected

To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Forefend 92% connected

To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Forfend 92% connected

To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Obviate 92% connected

To meet in the way.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suspend 92% connected

To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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