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banned

verb
/bænd/

Definitions

  1. simple past and past participle of ban

  2. Forbidden

    Forbidden; not allowed.

    • The London-based Free Tibet Campaign said at least 500 Tibetans had protested in the province's Luqu county on Saturday, where they burned Chinese flags and flew the banned Tibetan flag.
    • As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at banned. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01banned02forbidden03disallowed04disallow05colonial06country07nation08proscribed09prohibited

A definitional loop anchored at banned. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at banned

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA