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outlawed adjective [ ˈaʊtlɔːd ]

• made illegal; banned.
• "an outlawed extremist group"

outlaw verb

• ban or make illegal.
• "secondary picketing has been outlawed"
Similar: ban, bar, prohibit, forbid, veto, embargo, boycott, make illegal, disallow, proscribe, interdict, banish, exile, cast out, exclude, expel, shut out, repudiate, condemn, put a price on someone's head,
Opposite: permit, allow,
Origin: late Old English ūtlaga (noun), ūtlagian (verb), from Old Norse útlagi, noun from útlagr ‘outlawed or banished’.


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