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prohibit

verb
/pɹəˈhɪbɪt/UK/pɹoʊˈhɪbɪt/US

Etymology

From Middle English prohibiten, from Latin prohibeō (“to fend off, prevent, prohibit”) (through past participle prohibitus).

  1. derived from prohibeō — “to fend off, prevent, prohibit”
  2. inherited from prohibiten

Definitions

  1. To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially

    To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.

    • The restaurant prohibits smoking on the patio.
    • I was prohibited to come.
    • Crossing the border without permission is prohibited.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at prohibit. 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.

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

8 hops · closes at prohibit

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