Synonyms: prohibition, forbiddance, inhibition
Definition: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
Usage: they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter; a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages; he ignored his parents' forbiddance
Similar words: action
Definition: something done (usually as opposed to something said)
Usage: there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions
Synonyms: prohibition
Definition: a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
Usage: in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US
Similar words: law
Definition: legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
Usage: there is a law against kidnapping
Synonyms: prohibition, proscription, ban
Definition: a decree that prohibits something
Similar words: decree, edict, rescript, order, fiat
Definition: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
Usage: a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there
Synonyms: prohibition
Definition: refusal to approve or assent to
Similar words: refusal
Definition: the act of refusing
Synonyms: prohibition, prohibition era
Definition: the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
Similar words: time period, period, period of time
Definition: an amount of time
Usage: a time period of 30 years; hastened the period of time of his recovery; Picasso's blue period