proscribe
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General verb
To forbid or condemn something by law or authority.
The organisation was proscribed after being linked to a wave of attacks.
Law verb
To prohibit or forbid something, especially an organisation, by law.
The Home Secretary moved to proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation.
Business verb
To forbid or prohibit something officially.
The revised code proscribes any director from sitting on the audit committee of a direct competitor.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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