Synonyms for ban
bɑn; ˈbɑ niban

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1. ban

   Banish, primarily to put under ban, to compel by authority to leave a place or country, perhaps with restriction to some other place or country. From a country, a person may be banished, exiled, or expatriated; banished from any country where he may happen to be, but expatriated or exiled only from his own. One may expatriate or exile himself; he is banished by others. Banish is a word of wide import; one may banish disturbing thoughts; care may banish sleep. To expel is to drive out with violence or rudeness, and so often with disgrace.

   Synonyms:
   banish, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, drive out, eject, evict, exile, expatriate, expel, ostracize, oust

   Preposition:
   Cataline was banished from Rome; John the Apostle was banished to Patmos.

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1. prohibition, ban, proscriptionnoun

   a decree that prohibits something

   Synonyms:
   forbidding, inhibition, forbiddance, banning, prohibition era, prohibition, proscription, banishment

2. bannoun

   100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova

   Synonyms:
   prohibition, forbidding, forbiddance, proscription, banning

3. bannoun

   100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania

   Synonyms:
   prohibition, forbidding, forbiddance, proscription, banning

4. ban, banning, forbiddance, forbiddingnoun

   an official prohibition or edict against something

   Synonyms:
   prohibition, forbidding, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, banning

5. Bachelor of Arts in Nursing, BANverb

   a bachelor's degree in nursing

   Synonyms:
   prohibition, forbidding, forbiddance, proscription, banning

6. ban, censorverb

   forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

   Synonyms:
   blackball, censor, banish, ostracise, cast out, ostracize, shun

7. banverb

   prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure

   "Smoking is banned in this building"

   Synonyms:
   ostracise, cast out, shun, banish, ostracize, censor, blackball

8. banish, banverb

   ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

   Synonyms:
   blackball, ostracize, bar, banish, ostracise, cast out, relegate, censor, shun

9. banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackballverb

   expel from a community or group

   Synonyms:
   ostracize, veto, toss, relegate, cast out, toss out, fling, eschew, blackball, banish, chuck out, dispose, throw away, bar, censor, cast away, ostracise, cast aside, throw out, negative, put away, toss away, discard, shun

Matched Categories

1. • Romanian Monetary Unit
   • Expel
   • Forbid
   • Moldovan Monetary Unit

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1. bannoun

   Synonyms:
   proclamation, edict

2. bannoun

   Synonyms:
   curse, malediction, excommunication, denunciation, execration, anathema

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1. bannoun

   Synonyms:
   announcement, notice, curse, anathema, denunciation, malediction, execration, interdiction, proscription, interdict, taboo

2. banverb

   Synonyms:
   curse, anathematize, execrate, interdict, forbid, proscribe, taboo

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1. List of paraphrases for "ban":

   prohibition, prohibit, banning, embargo, prohibiting, forbid, interdiction, outlaw, prohibited, prohibitions, nuclear-test-ban, proscription, outlawing, prohibits, proscribe, 'interdiction, banish, banned

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1. Corey Boles:

   Democrats aren't going to agree to lift the ban unless Republicans are in a deal-making mood, and there is little evidence this is the case.

2. Kiki Taufik of Greenpeace Indonesia:

   We have learned from weak enforcement of the moratorium on clearing primary forests and peatland that (such a ban) lacks teeth ... and must take the form of a binding presidential regulation.

3. Mike Helms:

   Bans often inspire a knee-jerk reaction from the people they affect the most, i don't know if the proposed ban on flavored vaping fluid evokes this sort of response. I suspect it does for at least a small number of people. Vaping is not protected in the Bill of Rights, certainly not in the same way that guns are.

4. Ron Ness:

   This is just an effort on OPEC's part to see if they can outlast shale oil exploration and production in the United States, it's a strong signal back to Congress that it needs to find a way to get that crude oil export ban eliminated.

5. Rand Paul:

   If we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet ... the terrorists will have won.