DISALLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disallow mean? 

• DISALLOW (verb)
  The verb DISALLOW has 1 sense:

1. command against

  Familiarity information: DISALLOW used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISALLOW (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disallow    ... he / she / it disallows   
Past simple: disallowed   
Past participle: disallowed   
-ing form: disallowing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Command against

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

disallow; forbid; interdict; nix; prohibit; proscribe; veto

Context example:

Dad nixed our plans

Hypernyms (to "disallow" is one way to...):

command; require (make someone do something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disallow"):

ban (prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure)

bar; debar; exclude (prevent from entering; keep out)

enjoin (issue an injunction)

criminalise; criminalize; illegalise; illegalize; outlaw (declare illegal; outlaw)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue disallow the movie

Antonym:

allow (consent to, give permission)

 Context examples 

You totally disallow any similarity in the obligations; and may I not thence infer that your notions of the duties of the dancing state are not so strict as your partner might wish?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)