to interdict
4
9.4
- verb
- /ˈɪntərˌdɪkt/
- Formal
:
prohibir
- To date, U.S. policy—aimed at eradicating coca production and interdicting its transit—has been disappointing at best.
Examples
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The government decided to interdict the shipment of illegal drugs coming into the country.
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Since September 11, the counterterrorism intelligence effort has moved from producing papers characterizing terrorist groups to supporting operations to interdict terrorists.
Academic text (2004) -
Coast Guard interdicts about one a month.
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The Coast Guard interdicts about one of these a month.
Fiction book (1998) -
Request permission to interdict.
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The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives makes every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and prevent their transportation to Mexico," the letter added.
Blog text (29) -
Iran, in particular, had an advantageous geographic position to selectively interdict tanker traffic passing through the Persian Gulf.
Academic text (2007) -
Resolution 1373 required nations to interdict arms flows and financial transfers to suspected terrorist groups, report on terrorists' movements, and update national legislation to fight them.
Academic text (2003) -
Another international effort to disrupt proliferation is the Proliferation Security Initiative, a program launched by President Bush and endorsed by President Obama to interdict illicit trafficking of weapons of mass destruction and missile technology.
Academic text (2010) -
They set up a blockade to interdict the supplies reaching the opposing forces.
Synonyms
299
3.3
To officially say that something is not allowed by law
211
3.0
Order someone not to do something
176
4.8
To stop public protest by force or by people in power
114
4.4
To make something illegal
16
3.9
To refuse to allow something, usually by an official rule
15
8.0
To say no to an idea or plan
8
8.6
To forbid something by law or official rule
To tell people not to publish information or documents until a set time
Antonyms
How Prohibitive
114
4.4
- Formal
4
9.4
299
3.3
- Formal
484
1.4
211
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
interdict = inter + dict
Even as a verb meaning 'to prohibit,' the sense cannot be transparently derived from the parts 'inter-' + '-dict' in contemporary English and is effectively a learned lexical item.
Etymology
Interdict comes from the Latin parts inter- 'between' and dicere 'to say', giving the image of an official 'saying' that puts a barrier in place. So to interdict something as a verb is to officially forbid or stop it.