PROSCRIBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proscribe mean? 

• PROSCRIBE (verb)
  The verb PROSCRIBE has 1 sense:

1. command against

  Familiarity information: PROSCRIBE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROSCRIBE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they proscribe    ... he / she / it proscribes   
Past simple: proscribed   
Past participle: proscribed   
-ing form: proscribing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Command against

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

disallow; forbid; interdict; nix; prohibit; proscribe; veto

Context example:

Dad nixed our plans

Hypernyms (to "proscribe" is one way to...):

command; require (make someone do something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "proscribe"):

ban (prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure)

bar; debar; exclude (prevent from entering; keep out)

enjoin (issue an injunction)

criminalise; criminalize; illegalise; illegalize; outlaw (declare illegal; outlaw)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)

proscription (a decree that prohibits something)