PROSCRIBED Synonyms: 134 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in prohibited

that may not be permitted the organization lost its nonprofit status after it was determined to have engaged in several proscribed fund-raising activities

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verb

past tense of proscribe

as in banned

to order not to do or use or to be done or used regulations proscribe the use of electronic devices on board a plane while it is landing

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Palestine Action is a pro-Palestinian direct action group that was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK government in July 2025. — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026 The Irish novelist had pledged to donate royalties from her books to the direct-action protest group, despite the fact that the UK has, controversially, proscribed it as a terrorist organisation. — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 20 Oct. 2026 In July 2025, the direct-action protest group Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026 In the black-and-white drama from director Markus Schleinzer, Hüller plays Rose, a woman in rural Germany in the 17th Century who passer herself off as a male farmer to have a life otherwise proscribed for a women at the time. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2026 The High Court determined that former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper (who now serves as Foreign Secretary) had not properly followed her own policies when deciding what constitutes an organization being proscribed under the Terrorism Act. — Callum Sutherland, Time, 13 Feb. 2026 Free speech was tremendously proscribed. — Eve Fairbanks, The Dial, 27 Jan. 2026 Libraries are getting rid of Russian books; books printed in Russia have been proscribed (as a bookstore manager in downtown Odesa explained to me in the fall of 2019, more than two years before the Russian invasion); Gogol is taught in Ukrainian translation. — John Connelly, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025 Turkey’s government has vocally supported Hamas, but in Egypt, the group is strictly proscribed. — Nbc News, NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025

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Their alternating stories portray a Europe that exploits gifted children, while rigid class and gender expectations leave both protagonists struggling to pursue forbidden ambitions.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
As a forbidden attraction grows between the two men, tragedy unleashes supernatural forces upon their deeply religious community.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026

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Reservoirs have already fallen perilously low -- with one lake so dry this year that a small town nearby let its Little League field go dry and temporarily forbade residents from washing cars or watering lawns.

— Hannah Knowles The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
For decades, the United States favored an international order that forbade wars of conquest, upheld freedom of the seas, maintained a generally open global economy, and allowed populations to exercise democratic rights, even if autocracies remained.

— Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of forbade

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His campaign told Fox News Digital that the conviction stemmed from displaying a sticker of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, whose Kach party was outlawed in 1994, and reflected his support for a Jewish nationalist movement.

— Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Using the history of gay male desire in different time periods — dangerous, clandestine, outlawed and at long last fitfully accepted — the film examines legacy and what gets handed down across time.

— Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

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