Banned vs Prohibit - What's the difference?
banned | prohibit |
(ban)
Forbidden; not allowed.
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, title= To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
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, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
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As verbs the difference between banned and prohibit
is that banned is (ban) while prohibit is to forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.As an adjective banned
is forbidden; not allowed.banned
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(en adjective)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.}}
prohibit
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(en verb)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited , yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}