allow(GIVE PERMISSION)

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to forbid someone or something
forbidHe grew up in a strict household where dating was forbidden.
disallowUpon review, the goal was disallowed.
banThe government has banned the sale of lead-based paint.
prohibitVehicles are prohibited from parking on the grass.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Forbidding and banning things
abolish
abolition
abolitionist
anti-censorship
ban
debar someone from something/doing something
decertification
decertify
deny something to someone
disallow
non-valid
off-limits
out of boundsidiom
outlaw
prohibit
unapproved
unauthorized
unkosher
unsanctioned
verboten

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UK politics: legislation & law-making

Examples of disallowed

disallowed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Given this restriction, the well-formedness of (53), which contains the disallowed past tense verb, is puzzling.
Two-valued logic admits only the interpretation that the state is disallowed, which automatically makes this condition symmetric.
This data restriction disallowed for any meaningful discussion about economic status of entrepreneurs as compared with that of political, managerial, and professional elites.
In 1995, education programs were limited to two years in length except in unusual circumstances, and four-year programs were disallowed.
In the new world coming into being that 'tyrannical humour ' would be disallowed.
However, three-valued logic admits the meaning that the state 1 is disallowed.
The syntactic dependency, although structurally possible, is disallowed due to the feature specification of the pronoun.
As a result, true function symbols are disallowed, else models could be infinite and impossible to compute.
One way to enforce this restriction, he suggests, is to penalize physicians who carry out disallowed clonings.
They absolutely disallowed large chunks of the news, though it was ' apparent truth ', and they expurgated what remained.
It was disallowed because compensation was only allowable if a felony had occurred.
However, one of the possible interpretations is disallowed by the universal constraints.
There may indeed be a core of morphosyntactic passive constructions in which available strategies for expressing agentive phrases must be disallowed by fiat.
This would make the interpretation of the sentence odd, and hence, improper movement would be disallowed.
Resumptive pronouns are disallowed in the object position of periphrastic verbs in both analyses, but for different reasons.
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