outlaw

[ out-law ]

/ ˈaʊtˌlɔ /

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noun

a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.

a person, group, or thing excluded from the benefits and protection of the law.

a person under sentence of outlawry.

a person who refuses to be governed by the established rules or practices of any group; rebel; nonconformist: one of the outlaws of country music.

Chiefly Western U.S.

a horse that cannot be broken; a mean, intractable horse.
any rogue animal.

verb (used with object)

to make unlawful or illegal: The Eighteenth Amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating beverages in the U.S.

to deprive of thebenefits and protection of the law: Members of guerrilla bands who refused to surrender were outlawed.

to prohibit: to outlaw smoking in a theater.

to remove from legal jurisdiction; deprive of legal force.

adjective

of, relating to, or characteristic of an outlaw.

Origin of outlaw

before 1150; Middle English outlawe, Old English ūtlaga < Old Norse ūtlagi one outside the protection of the law; see out, law¹

SYNONYMS FOR outlaw

1 desperado, bandit, brigand.

8 proscribe, ban, forbid.

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OTHER WORDS FROM outlaw

self-out·law, noun self-out·lawed, adjective un·out·lawed, adjective

Words nearby outlaw

outlaid, outland, outlander, outlandish, outlast, outlaw, outlaw strike, outlawry, outlay, outleap, outlet

Example sentences from the Web for outlawed

The Egyptian government claims the group has links with the now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

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While countries like South Africa still allow regulated trophy hunting of rhinos, Botwswana outlawed the practice this year.

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Enzo Cilenti as Yezzan: “Yezzan was an extremely wealthy slave trader before Daenerys Targaryen outlawed the slave trade.”

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The practice was outlawed in 2008 just before Beijing hosted the Olympics.

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Utah outlawed the practice, prevalent among Mormons, so Congress would accept it as a state in 1896.

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He further indulges self pity with the belief that society aims to keep him outlawed.

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It was enacted as a law that all sorcerers should be outlawed.

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The sorcerer is outlawed, and betakes himself to the secret performance of unholy rites in dark and unwholesome circumstances.

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It is generally held that homicide of this kind was extremely rare and that, when it did occur, the slayer was outlawed.

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Here the lawful government gives liberty to a peaceful laborer, and the planter is an outlawed traitor.

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British Dictionary definitions for outlawed

outlaw

/ (ˈaʊtˌlɔː) /

noun

(formerly) a person excluded from the law and deprived of its protection

any fugitive from the law, esp a habitual transgressor

a wild or untamed beast

verb (tr)

to put (a person) outside the law and deprive of its protection

(in the US) to deprive (a contract) of legal force

to ban

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