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embargo

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
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em=bar=go

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun embargo has 1 sense

Verb embargo has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

embargon. [Sp., fr. embargar to arrest, restrain; pref. em- (L. in) + Sp. barra bar, akin to F. barre bar. See Bar.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]
    " 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."  [1913 Webster]
embargov. t. 
     To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

embargo, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -oes)
1 an order of a State forbidding foreign ships to enter, or any ships to leave, its ports.
2 an official suspension of commerce or other activity (be under an embargo).
3 an impediment.
--v.tr. (-oes, -oed)
1 place (ships, trade, etc.) under embargo.
2 seize (a ship, goods) for State service.

Etymology
Sp. f. embargar arrest f. Rmc (as IN-(2), BAR(1))

THESAURUS

embargo

Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, ban, bar, bar out, barrier, barring, block, blockade, blockage, boycott, cease, cessation, check, circumscription, contraband, count out, cut off, debar, debarment, debarring, demarcation, denial, deny, disallow, disallowance, enjoin, exception, exclude, exclude from, exclusion, forbid, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, freeze out, hinder, hindrance, hold back, hold up, ignore, impede, impediment, inadmissibility, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibit, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, keep out, law, leave out, lock out, lockout, narrowing, no-no, nonadmission, omission, omit, ostracize, outlaw, pass over, preclude, preclusion, prevent, prevention, prohibit, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscribe, proscription, refusal, refuse, reject, rejection, relegate, relegation, repress, repression, repudiate, repudiation, restrain, restraint, restrict, restriction, restrictive covenants, retard, rule out, ruling out, say no to, send to Coventry, shut out, statute, stop, stoppage, sumptuary laws, suppress, suppression, taboo, zoning, zoning laws

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Prohibition

N prohibition, inhibition, veto, disallowance, interdict, interdiction, injunction, estoppel, embargo, ban, taboo, proscription, index expurgatorius, restriction, hindrance, forbidden fruit, Maine law, prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive, restrictive, exclusive, forbidding, prohibited, not permitted, unlicensed, contraband, impermissible, under the ban of, illegal, unauthorized, not to be thought of, uncountenanced, unthinkable, beyond the pale, on no account, Int, forbid it heaven!, hands off!, keep off!, hold!, stop!, desist!, cease and desist!, avast!, that will never do, don't you dare, forget it, don't even think about doing it, go ahead, make my day.

Quiescence

N quiescence, rest, stillness, quiescence, stagnation, stagnancy, fixity, immobility, catalepsy, indisturbance, quietism, quiet, tranquility, calm, repose, peace, dead calm, anticyclone, statue-like repose, silence, not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring, sleep, pause, lull, stand still, standing still, lock, dead lock, dead stop, dead stand, full stop, fix, embargo, resting place, gite, bivouac, home, pillow, haven, goal, quiescent, still, motionless, moveless, fixed, stationary, immotile, at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, stock, still, standing still, sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home, becalmed, stagnant, quiet, unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled, calm, restful, cataleptic, immovable, sleeping, silent, still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death, vegetative, vegetating, at a stand, tout court, at the halt, Int, stop!, stay!, avast!, halt!, hold hard!, whoa!, hold!, sabr karo!, requiescat in pace, Deus nobis haec otia fecit, the noonday quiet holds the hill.

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