present participle of prohibit

(transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.

An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something. / A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.

(history) Any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.

Forbidden; unallowed

simple past tense and past participle of prohibit

Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow. / Costly to the extreme; beyond budget. / (Of a contender in a competition): presumptive winner, likely winner.

(grammar) A negative imperative.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prohibit

In a prohibitive manner. / To a prohibitive extent.