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ban[1,verb] ban[2,noun] ban[3,noun] arriere-ban test ban

Main Entry: ¹ban
Pronunciation: 'ban
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): banned; ban·ning
Etymology: Middle English bannen to summon, curse, from Old English bannan to summon; akin to Old High German bannan to command, Latin fari to speak, Greek phanai to say, phOnE sound, voice
transitive verb
1 archaic : CURSE
2 : to prohibit especially by legal means <ban discrimination>; also : to prohibit the use, performance, or distribution of <ban a book> <ban a pesticide>
3 : BAR 3c <banned from the U.N.>
intransitive verb, archaic : to utter curses or maledictions