noun
- An official prohibition or edict against something.
- synonyms: ban, banning, forbidding
- 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"
- synonyms: prohibition, inhibition
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