| 单词 | outlaw |
| 释义 | outlaw /owt"law'/, n. 1. a lawless person or habitual criminal, esp. one who is a fugitive from the law. 2. a person, group, or thing excluded from the benefits and protection of the law. 3. a person under sentence of outlawry. 4. a person who refuses to be governed by the established rules or practices of any group; rebel; nonconformist: one of the outlaws of country music. 5. Chiefly Western U.S. a. a horse that cannot be broken; a mean, intractable horse. b. any rogue animal. v.t. 6. to make unlawful or illegal: The Eighteenth Amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating beverages in the U.S. 7. to deprive of thebenefits and protection of the law: Members of guerrilla bands who refused to surrender were outlawed. 8. to prohibit: to outlaw smoking in a theater. 9. to remove from legal jurisdiction; deprive of legal force. adj. 10. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an outlaw. [bef. 1150; ME outlawe, OE utlaga < ON utlagi one outside the protection of the law; see OUT, LAW1] Syn. 1. desperado, bandit, brigand. 8. proscribe, ban, forbid. |
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