banning

Plural: bannings

Noun

• The act of officially prohibiting something.
• an official prohibition or edict against something
• The act by which something is banned; a prohibition.

Verb

Verb Forms: ban, banned, banning, bans

• Officially or legally prohibiting something.
• forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
• prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure
• ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
• expel from a community or group
• present participle and gerund of ban

Examples

• Banning certain two-letter words can drastically alter Scrabble strategy.
• The banning of fake words is the only thing keeping Scrabble civilized.

Synonyms

ban, banish, blackball, cast out, censor, forbiddance, forbidding, ostracise, ostracize, shun

Anagrams of banning