prohibiting
present participle ofprohibit
| 单词 | prohibiting |
| 释义 | prohibiting present participle ofprohibit prohibit verb uk/prəˈhɪb.ɪt/us/prəˈhɪb.ɪt/B2[Toften passive] toofficiallyrefusetoallowsomething: Motorvehiclesare prohibitedfromdrivingin thetowncentre. Thegovernmentintroducedalawprohibitingtobaccoadvertisementson TV. Parking isstrictlyprohibited between thesegates. to forbid someone or something
[T] topreventaparticularactivityby making itimpossible: Theloudnessof themusicprohibitsseriousconversationin mostnightclubs. to prevent something from happening
Forbidding and banning things
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: UK politics: legislation & law-making Preventing and impeding Examplesofprohibitingprohibiting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Opponents of legal moralism often argue against the view that the immorality of some behavior is sufficient for legallyprohibitingit. From theCambridge English Corpus This discrepancy is due to the algorithm alterationsprohibitingrepeated designs. From theCambridge English Corpus Together the three plots filled three quarters of a 30-m x 60-m area, timeprohibitingfurther mapping. From theCambridge English Corpus Her father'sprohibitingany of his children from marrying may be seen as his wish not to have heirs of mixed blood. From theCambridge English Corpus Issues of "boundary" for permitting orprohibitingresearch on human embryos. From theCambridge English Corpus Prohibitingconstructors as retainers removes the problem with 'cons' cells being retained by other 'cons' cells. From theCambridge English Corpus Prohibitingcloning in the future might prevent us from helping infertile couples in these ways. From theCambridge English Corpus This is achieved byprohibitingpractices which cannot be objectively justified and have the effect of disproportionately disadvantaging a particular group. From theCambridge English Corpus First, as a matter of social policy there is no justificatory ground forprohibitingparents from having a child to save a child. From theCambridge English Corpus In general, states were careful to allow mergers of railroads that connected to form continuous lines, whileprohibitingmergers of competing lines. From theCambridge English Corpus That a type of behavior is condemned by a society's moral consensus provides grounds for legallyprohibitingit. From theCambridge English Corpus With respect to phrase-medial position, these include a constraintprohibitingthe occurrence of the (underlying) final vowel of a morpheme in an open syllable. From theCambridge English Corpus Most lawsprohibitingattempted crimes are like this. From theCambridge English Corpus The equality provision did this by setting out a list of groundsprohibitingdiscrimination. From theCambridge English Corpus There was brief resistance toprohibitingwomen from working underground. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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