interdict
interdict is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.
- noun. To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual.
- noun. A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.
- noun. A prohibition of the pope, by which the clergy or laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church.
- noun. An order of the court of session, having the like purpose and effect with a writ of injunction out of chancery in England and America.
- noun. a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity
- noun. an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district
- verb. command against
"I forbid you to call me late at night"
"Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"
- verb. destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication
Synonyms
interdiction, disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto
Common word forms
interdicts, interdicted, interdicting
Words from these letters
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