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In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.
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Meaning of "prohibit" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROHIBIT

From Latin prohibēre to prevent, from pro-1 + habēre to hold.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PROHIBIT

prohibit  [prəˈhɪbɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROHIBIT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prohibit is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb prohibit in English.

WHAT DOES PROHIBIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of prohibit in the English dictionary

The definition of prohibit in the dictionary is to forbid by law or other authority. Other definition of prohibit is to hinder or prevent.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PROHIBIT

PRESENT

Present
I prohibit
you prohibit
he/she/it prohibits
we prohibit
you prohibit
they prohibit
Present continuous
I am prohibiting
you are prohibiting
he/she/it is prohibiting
we are prohibiting
you are prohibiting
they are prohibiting
Present perfect
I have prohibited
you have prohibited
he/she/it has prohibited
we have prohibited
you have prohibited
they have prohibited
Present perfect continuous
I have been prohibiting
you have been prohibiting
he/she/it has been prohibiting
we have been prohibiting
you have been prohibiting
they have been prohibiting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I prohibited
you prohibited
he/she/it prohibited
we prohibited
you prohibited
they prohibited
Past continuous
I was prohibiting
you were prohibiting
he/she/it was prohibiting
we were prohibiting
you were prohibiting
they were prohibiting
Past perfect
I had prohibited
you had prohibited
he/she/it had prohibited
we had prohibited
you had prohibited
they had prohibited
Past perfect continuous
I had been prohibiting
you had been prohibiting
he/she/it had been prohibiting
we had been prohibiting
you had been prohibiting
they had been prohibiting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will prohibit
you will prohibit
he/she/it will prohibit
we will prohibit
you will prohibit
they will prohibit
Future continuous
I will be prohibiting
you will be prohibiting
he/she/it will be prohibiting
we will be prohibiting
you will be prohibiting
they will be prohibiting
Future perfect
I will have prohibited
you will have prohibited
he/she/it will have prohibited
we will have prohibited
you will have prohibited
they will have prohibited
Future perfect continuous
I will have been prohibiting
you will have been prohibiting
he/she/it will have been prohibiting
we will have been prohibiting
you will have been prohibiting
they will have been prohibiting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would prohibit
you would prohibit
he/she/it would prohibit
we would prohibit
you would prohibit
they would prohibit
Conditional continuous
I would be prohibiting
you would be prohibiting
he/she/it would be prohibiting
we would be prohibiting
you would be prohibiting
they would be prohibiting
Conditional perfect
I would have prohibit
you would have prohibit
he/she/it would have prohibit
we would have prohibit
you would have prohibit
they would have prohibit
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been prohibiting
you would have been prohibiting
he/she/it would have been prohibiting
we would have been prohibiting
you would have been prohibiting
they would have been prohibiting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you prohibit
we let´s prohibit
you prohibit
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to prohibit
Past participle
prohibited
Present Participle
prohibiting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROHIBIT


adhibit
ədˈhɪbɪt
celibate
ˈsɛlɪbɪt
cohibit
kəʊˈhɪbɪt
disinhibit
ˌdɪsɪnˈhɪbɪt
exhibit
ɪɡˈzɪbɪt
flibbertigibbet
ˈflɪbətɪˌdʒɪbɪt
gibbet
ˈdʒɪbɪt
inhibit
ɪnˈhɪbɪt
reexhibit
ˌriːɪɡˈzɪbɪt
traybit
ˈtreɪbɪt
zibet
ˈzɪbɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROHIBIT

progressively
progressiveness
progressivism
progressivist
progressivistic
progressivity
progun
progymnasia
progymnasium
prohibited substance
prohibiter
prohibition
prohibitionary
prohibitionism
prohibitionist
prohibitive
prohibitively
prohibitiveness
prohibitor
prohibitory

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROHIBIT

a bit
ambit
debit
direct debit
every bit
gambit
gigabit
habit
hobbit
inhabit
megabit
not a bit
obit
orbit
qubit
rabbit
tidbit
titbit
wait-a-bit
white rabbit

Synonyms and antonyms of prohibit in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PROHIBIT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «prohibit» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of prohibit

Translation of «prohibit» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROHIBIT

Find out the translation of prohibit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prohibit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prohibit» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

禁止
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prohibir
570 millions of speakers

English

prohibit
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निषेध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يَحْظِر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

запрещать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

proibir
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিষিদ্ধ করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

interdire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Melarang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verbieten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

禁止する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

금지하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nglarang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cấm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தடை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रतिबंधित करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yasaklamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vietare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zakazać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

забороняти
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a interzice
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απαγορεύω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verbied
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förbjuda
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forby
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prohibit

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROHIBIT»

The term «prohibit» is very widely used and occupies the 15.677 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROHIBIT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prohibit» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prohibit» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prohibit

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10 QUOTES WITH «PROHIBIT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word prohibit.
1
Freda Adler
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
2
William J. Brennan, Jr.
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
3
Corrine Brown
I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.
4
Claude Adrien Helvetius
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
5
Dean Kamen
In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.
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Leon Kass
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
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Dudley North
The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains.
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Barack Obama
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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Danica Patrick
To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.
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Charles B. Rangel
Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to do.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROHIBIT»

Discover the use of prohibit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prohibit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Why Prohibit Hounding? Or Ten Objections Against Hunting ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Henry B Roney, 2012
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Prohibit Exploitation by Private Employment Agencies in the ...
Considers S. 3259, to regulate private employment agencies in D.C
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Public Health, Education, Welfare, and Safety, 1962
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Speeches of ... S. Prentiss ... upon the Bill to prohibit ...
¿èïÜ'JZ `5г'/;;? fr I/ SPEECHES ПР 'NIE HON. SÀMUEL ÉRENTISS, ог VERMONT , 1 um т ты. то PROHIBIT THE GIVING OR AUCEPTING CHALLENGES то DUELS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, FOR THE PUNISHMENT THEREOF.
Samuel PRENTISS, 1838
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An act more effectually to prohibit and prevent pastors or ...
Geosgii H. Regis. ii And be it further enacted, {^"Æ^. That if any Person sliall, fromfitiatlnginE-" and after the said First Day of j£gJ2g£ September , presume to enter upon, or exercise the Function of a Pastor or Minister of any E- piscopal ...
Parliament acts, 1746
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Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Kerberos – Allows you to permit/prohibit daemons to be able to use kerberos files , and enable/disable SELinux protection for kadmind (kerberos administrative daemon) and krb5kdc (kerberos 5 key control daemon). Memory Protection ...
Asghar Ghori, 2009
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Verbs of Implicit Negation and Their Complements in the ...
to-infinitives and gerunds are frequent with prohibit, whereas from the eighteenth century onwards to-infinitives are increasingly infrequent and gerunds take their place. Prohibit is indeed a verb which typically displays the complement shift ...
Yoko Iyeiri, 2010
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The Entrepreneur in Youth: An Untapped Resource for Economic ...
1 Government Should Prohibit Price Increases* Note: "If a shortage of lumber increased the cost of building houses, do you think the government should prohibit construction companies from raising prices on new houses?" The bad news is ...
Marilyn L. Kourilsky, William B. Walstad, Andrew Thomas, 2007
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Foreign Policy-Related U.S. Trade Law
the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States.” After the president declares a national emergency, he can restrict or prohibit virtually any foreign economic transaction: imports, exports, and transfers of money or credit.
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
For example, the use of flood plains for agricultural purposes can be regulated to prohibit farm dwellings, the permanent sheltering or restrictive confinement of animals, and tillage of the floodways without soil conservation practices.
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1977
10
Journal
1186) 650, pd. 839, comp. 1000, app 972 To submit to popular vote question of sale of, pet. 98, 111, 121, 140, 161, 178, 184, 192, 198, 207, 216, 227, 235, 274, 319, 355, 401, 43^, 482, 498, 585, 845 Beaver co., to repeal act to prohibit sale of , ...
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate, Temple University. School of Law, 1868

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROHIBIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prohibit is used in the context of the following news items.
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Court asked to prohibit drunk driver from future driving privileges
NASHUA — The family of a Nashua man killed by a drunk driver last year is hopeful that the driver will no longer be permitted to get behind the ... «The Union Leader, Jul 15»
2
ALP conference: left loses vote on motion to prohibit boat turnbacks …
It was pretty obvious the effort to prohibit turnbacks was not going to succeed. But the debate proceeded in any case. It opened with protestors ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Despite mass shootings, many S.A. venues prohibit carrying weapons
A spokesperson for Santikos theaters told us it's reviewing its security training for employees, but it does not prohibit concealed carry. «KENS 5 TV, Jul 15»
4
Businesses, private properties can prohibit guns on premises
Any business or private property owner can prohibit guns on their property. Failure to comply with the prohibition can result in a criminal ... «Sachse News, Jul 15»
5
Proposed Montville ordinance would prohibit dogs at some …
MONTVILLE — Gloria Medina will to have to find another place for her two cocker spaniels to run if the Town Council approves an ordinance ... «Norwich Bulletin, Jul 15»
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NC Senate takes up bill to prohibit varying livestock standards …
To prevent different livestock regulations from county to county, state lawmakers are discussing a bill to prohibit local ordinances that set ... «News & Observer, Jul 15»
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NJ lawmaker plans bill to prohibit governors from using public funds …
Governor Christie and first lady Mary Pat Christie talk to the press after attending the English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
8
County court votes to prohibit six types of marijuana businesses
However, legislation allows any county to prohibit those sales in the area subject to its jurisdiction. The court agreed during its July 15 meeting ... «Burns Times Herald, Jul 15»
9
BARC lays down rules to prohibit misuse of TV ratings
Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC India) has come out strongly, exercising the powers vested in it by its constituents as a Joint ... «Best Media Info, Jul 15»
10
House Republicans want to prohibit National Parks from banning …
A short list of things Republicans would like to do with our National Parks: open them up to oil and gas drilling and maybe mining; sell off what ... «Salon, Jul 15»

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