Outlaw - English meaning

verb

Officially or legally prohibit (something).

Usage examples:

Parking is banned around the harbour in summer

noun

An official or legal prohibition.

Usage examples:

A proposed ban on cigarette advertising

noun

A monetary unit of romania, equal to one hundredth of a leu.

Usage examples:

If you want milk you have to ask for it and it costs extra (often 50 bani or 5000 old lei) and is u…

noun

A robber or outlaw belonging to a gang and typically operating in an isolated or lawless area.

Usage examples:

The bandit produced a weapon and demanded money

noun

An armed thief, esp. (in older use) one who attacks people while they are traveling

Usage examples:

Bandits attacked the travelers just outside of town.

verb

Send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment.

Usage examples:

A number of people were banished to siberia for political crimes

verb

To send someone away and forbid the person to come back

Usage examples:

He was banished from his sister's house., their goal is to banish war forever.

noun

A long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon.

Usage examples:

An iron bar

verb

Fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars.

Usage examples:

She bolted and barred the door

preposition

Except for.

Usage examples:

His kids were all gone now, bar one

verb

Withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.

Usage examples:

We will boycott all banks which take part in the loans scheme

noun

A punitive ban on relations with other bodies, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods.

Usage examples:

A boycott of the negotiations

verb

To refuse to buy a product or take part in an activity as a way of expressing strong disapproval

Usage examples:

The union called on its members to boycott the meeting., she organized an economic boycott of the c…

noun

A member of a gang that ambushes and robs people in forests and mountains.

Usage examples:

This was a reference to the place's reputation in the past as a dangerous spot for highwaymen and b…

noun

A thief with a weapon, especially one of a group living in the countryside and stealing from people travelling through the area

phrasal verb

Throw or cast away

phrasal verb

To get rid of someone or something, especially forcefully

Usage examples:

Cast out by his family, he was forced to fend for himself.

verb

Express complete disapproval of; censure.

Usage examples:

Most leaders roundly condemned the attack

verb

To criticize something or someone strongly, usually for moral reasons

Usage examples:

The movie was condemned for glorifying violence., those who remember the past are not condemned to …

noun

A person who has committed a crime.

Usage examples:

These men are dangerous criminals

adjective

Relating to crime.

Usage examples:

They are charged with conspiracy to commit criminal damage

adjective

Involving or having the character of a crime

Usage examples:

She may face criminal charges for lying to a grand jury., he had an extensive criminal record (= an…

noun

A desperate or reckless person, especially a criminal.

Usage examples:

At the same time, he couldn't abide facile equations between criminal desperadoes and the legalized…

verb

Refuse to declare valid.

Usage examples:

He was offside and the goal was disallowed

verb

To state officially that something cannot be accepted or allowed, because it has not been done in the correct way

Usage examples:

The monopolies legislation disallows mergers of major companies within one industry., disallow clai…

noun

An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.

Usage examples:

An embargo on grain sales

verb

Impose an official ban on (trade or a country or commodity).

Usage examples:

All of these countries have been embargoed by the us

noun

A government order to temporarily stop trading certain goods or with certain countries

Usage examples:

They put an embargo on imports of steel.

verb

Deny (someone) access to a place, group, or privilege.

Usage examples:

The public were excluded from the board meeting

verb

To keep out or omit (something or someone)

Usage examples:

The advertised price excludes the sales tax., [ u ] her exclusion from the invitation list was a mi…

verb

To intentionally not include something

Usage examples:

Under the terms of the insurance policy, it is impossible to exclude liability for death or persona…

noun

The state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons.

Usage examples:

He knew now that he would die in exile

verb

Expel and bar (someone) from their native country, typically for political or punitive reasons.

Usage examples:

A corrupt dictator who had been exiled from his country

verb

Officially make (someone) leave a school or other organization.

Usage examples:

She was expelled from school

Eliminate

verb

To force someone to leave a country, organization, or school

Usage examples:

He was expelled from school for his continued bad behavior.

verb

Refuse to allow (something).

Usage examples:

I can see why phones were forbidden

verb

To not allow something, or to order someone not to do something

Usage examples:

You can’t forbid me to go.

noun

A person who has escaped from captivity or is in hiding.

Usage examples:

Fugitives from justice

adjective

Quick to disappear; fleeting.

Usage examples:

The fugitive effects of light

noun

An authoritative prohibition.

Usage examples:

The university on friday obtained an interim interdict prohibiting students from damaging property …

verb

Prohibit or forbid (something).

Usage examples:

Society will never interdict sex

noun

An official instruction from a law court telling someone that they are not allowed to do something

noun

A person who has been rejected or ostracized by their society or social group.

Usage examples:

She went from trusted pal to ostracized outcast overnight

adjective

(of a person) rejected or ostracized.

Usage examples:

They can be made to feel outcast and inadequate

noun

A person who is not accepted or has no place in society or in a particular group

Usage examples:

A social outcast

noun

An outcast.

Usage examples:

They were treated as social pariahs

noun

A person who is avoided or not accepted by a social group, esp. because he or she is not liked, respected, or trusted; an outcast

Usage examples:

Because of its poor human rights record, the country was treated as a pariah by other nations.

verb

Formally forbid (something) by law, rule, or other authority.

Usage examples:

All ivory trafficking between nations is prohibited

verb

To officially forbid something

Usage examples:

The law prohibits smoking in restaurants., loud music prohibited serious conversation.

verb

To officially stop something from being done by making rules or laws that do not allow it

Usage examples:

The government introduced a law prohibiting tobacco advertisements on tv., prohibit sb from doing s…

verb

Forbid, especially by law.

Usage examples:

Strikes remained proscribed in the armed forces

verb

To forbid an action or practice officially

Usage examples:

The sale of materials that could be used in making nuclear weapons is proscribed by us law.

verb

Refuse to accept; reject.

Usage examples:

She has repudiated policies associated with previous party leaders

verb

To refuse to accept or obey something or someone; reject

Usage examples:

The evidence presented at the trial has since been repudiated., the election results were a repudia…

verb

To decide that an agreement is no longer effective and that you will not do what it says you must do

Usage examples:

Repudiate a contract/agreement failure to deliver on time will entitle the buyer to repudiate the c…

noun

A person who commits robbery.

Usage examples:

In one version the bandits and their boss join the imperial forces and from then on fight robbers a…

noun

A person who takes money or property illegally

noun

A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a lawmaking body.

Usage examples:

Neither state was given a veto over amendments to the act

verb

Exercise a veto against (a decision or proposal).

Usage examples:

The president vetoed the bill

noun

The power to refuse to allow something to be done, or such a refusal

Usage examples:

[ c ] the president has promised a veto if congress passes that bill., [ u ] the mayor will have no…

noun

(in a film, novel, or play) a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot.

Usage examples:

A pantomime villain

noun

A bad person who harms other people or breaks the law, or a cruel or evil character in a book, play, or film

Usage examples:

In her version of the story, hoover emerges as the villain.