Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense interdicts, present participle interdicting, past tense, past participle interdictedpronunciation note: The verb is pronounced (ɪntəʳdɪkt). The noun is pronounced (ɪntəʳdɪkt).
1. verb
If an armed force interdicts something or someone, they stop them and prevent them from moving. If they interdict a route, they block it or cut it off.
[US, formal]
Troops could be ferried in to interdict drug shipments. [VERB noun]
...efforts to isolate the theater of operations by interdicting the bridges. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: prohibit, bar, ban, prevent More Synonyms of interdict
There should be interdiction of shipping suspected of carrying illegal goods.
2. countable noun
An interdict is an official order that something must not be done or used.
[formal]
The National Trust has placed an interdict on jet-skis in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. [+ on]
Synonyms: ban, veto, prohibition, taboo More Synonyms of interdict
interdict in British English
noun (ˈɪntəˌdɪkt, -ˌdaɪt)
1. Roman Catholic Church
the exclusion of a person or all persons in a particular place from certain sacraments and other benefits, although not from communion
2. civil law
any order made by a court or official prohibiting an act
3. Scots law
an order having the effect of an injunction
4. Roman history
a.
an order of a praetor commanding or forbidding an act
b.
the procedure by which this order was sought
verb (ˌɪntəˈdɪkt, -ˈdaɪt)(transitive)
5.
to place under legal or ecclesiastical sanction; prohibit; forbid
6. military
to destroy (an enemy's lines of communication) by firepower
Derived forms
interdictive (ˌinterˈdictive) or interdictory (ˌinterˈdictory)
adjective
interdictively (ˌinterˈdictively)
adverb
interdictor (ˌinterˈdictor)
noun
Word origin
C13: from Latin interdictum prohibition, from interdīcere to forbid, from inter- + dīcere to say
interdict in American English
(ˌɪntərˈdɪkt; for n. ˈɪntərˌdɪkt)
verb transitive
1.
to prohibit (an action) or prohibit the use of (a thing); forbid with authority
2.
to restrain from doing or using something
3.
to impede or hinder (the enemy) or isolate (an area, route, etc.) by firepower or bombing
4. Roman CatholicChurch
to exclude (a person, parish, etc.) from certain acts, sacraments, or privileges
noun
5.
an official prohibition or restraint
6. Roman CatholicChurch
an interdicting of a person, parish, etc.
SIMILAR WORDS: forˈbid
Derived forms
interdiction (ˌinterˈdiction)
noun
interdictor (ˌinterˈdictor)
noun
interdictory (ˌinterˈdictory)
adjective or ˌinterˈdictive
Word origin
altered (infl. by L interdictus) < ME entrediten < n. entredit < OFr < L interdictum < pp. of interdicere, to forbid, prohibit, lit., to speak between < inter- (see inter-) + dicere, to speak (see diction)
Word lists with
interdict
Scots law terms
(verb)
Definition
to prohibit or forbid
Troops could be ferried in to interdict drug shipments.
Synonyms
prohibit
the law which prohibits trading on Sunday
bar
They have been barred from playing in several countries.
ban
Last year arms sales were banned.
prevent
veto
De Gaulle vetoed Britain's application to join the EEC.
forbid
They'll forbid you to leave.
outlaw
The new government has outlawed some extremist groups.
disallow
He ruled that my testimony should be disallowed.
proscribe
They are proscribed by federal law from owning guns.
debar
She could be debarred from politics for several years.
criminalize
(noun)
Definition
an official prohibition or restraint
The government has placed an interdict on fishing within territorial waters.
Synonyms
ban
The General also lifted a ban on political parties.
veto
congressmen who tried to override the president's veto of the bill
prohibition
a comprehensive prohibition of nuclear weapons
taboo
a cultural taboo against eating fish
disqualification
He faces a four-year disqualification from athletics.
interdiction
disallowance
restraining order (US law)
Additional synonyms
in the sense of bar
Definition
to exclude
They have been barred from playing in several countries.
Synonyms
exclude,
ban,
forbid,
prohibit,
keep out of,
disallow,
shut out of,
ostracize,
debar,
blackball,
interdict,
black
in the sense of debar
Definition
to prevent (someone) from doing something
She could be debarred from politics for several years.