ban
To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
Example
“Bare feet are banned in this establishment.”
Other meanings
To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
To curse; to execrate.
Word history
From Old English "bannan" (to summon, command, proclaim, call out).
Where this comes from
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