disallowverb [ T ]
uk/ˌdɪs.əˈlaʊ/us/ˌdɪs.əˈlaʊ/to say officially that something cannot be accepted because it has not been done in the correct way:
All protests have been disallowed in the city.
The England team had two goals disallowed.
Opposite
allow
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Forbidding and banning things
- abolish
- abolitionist
- ban
- bar
- blacklist
- clean
- clean (sth) up
- curfew
- debar
- deny
- disqualify
- forbid
- nix
- out of bounds idiom
- outlaw
- prohibit
- prohibition
- proscribe
- unauthorized
- veto
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