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    proscribe - Dictionary definition and meaning for word proscribe

    Definition
    (verb) command against
    Synonyms : disallow , forbid , interdict , nix , prohibit , veto
    Example Sentence
    • I forbid you to call me late at night
    • Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store
    • Dad nixed our plans
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for proscribe

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When you want a magazine, you PREscribe(subscribe) it. Similarly when you want to stop it, you will have to PROSCRIBE. SO PROSCRIBE = prohibit

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A doctor Prescribes medicines and Proscribes unhealthy food...

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it can be written like this pro means before + scribe means to write .SO A WRITER WHOSE WRITING ARE PROHIBITED TO BE PUBLISHED in that country.

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Anyone know Salman Rushdie? (PRO)secute the (SCRIBE) if he writes derogatory remarks about Islam. derogatory

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always getting confused b/w proscribe and tanscribe so lets end it here and now. TRANS is through/accross hence transcribe is to copy through some magazine, whereas proscribe is banning of noobs into game of cs by pros

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opposite of prescribe

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when we suggest something i.e. we support something its PRESCRIBE and when we oppose something not good, its PROSCRIBE

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the book prescribed for us has been PROSCRIBED in america

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Prosecutor Bribe=proscribe;so bribing a prosecutor is forbidden

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subscribe=offer to do something,proscribe =banish ,forbid to do

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Selling drugs without prescription is proscribed!

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