- ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding - an official prohibition or edict against something
--1 is a kind of prohibition
--1 has particulars: test banDerived form: verb forbid1 - prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance - the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"
--2 is a kind of action
Derived form: verb forbid1