Word Meanings - EMBARGO - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail. Note: If the embargo is laid on an enemy's ships, it is called a hostile embargo; if on
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An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail. Note: If the embargo is laid on an enemy's ships, it is called a hostile embargo; if on the ships belonging to citizens of the embargoing state, it is called a civil embargo. (more info) restrain; pref. em- + Sp. barra bar, akin to F. barre bar.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EMBARGO)
- Detain
- Stay
- keep
- arrest
- check
- withhold
- delay
- restrain
- embargo
- stop
- Prohibition
- Interdiction
- inhibition
- interdict
- disallowance
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EMBARGO)
Related words: (words related to EMBARGO)
- CHECKWORK
Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard. - DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - RELEASE
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - DISMISSAL
Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley. - ALLOWEDLY
By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. - INTERDICT
To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual. An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same. Ayliffe. (more info) - ALLOW
allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend - CHECKREIN
1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse. - ALLOWER
1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits. - DISMISS
1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden. - INDULGEMENT
Indulgence. Wood. - ARRESTIVE
Tending to arrest. McCosh. - INHIBITION
A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, - DETAINMENT
Detention. Blackstone. - LOOSE
laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair, - RESTRAINEDLY
With restraint. Hammond. - CHECKLATON
1. Ciclatoun. 2. Gilded leather. Spenser. - INDULGENCE
Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of - ARRESTEE
The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - SALLOWISH
Somewhat sallow. Dickens. - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - MALLOWWORT
Any plant of the order Malvaceæ. - SWALLOWFISH
The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins. - TALLOW-FACED
Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton. - TALLOWY
Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy. - UNHALLOWED
Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked. In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence . . . is either necessary or admissible. E. D. Griffin.