outlawed

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outlawed

adjective

  1. not comparable, of an act put beyond the limits of the law, forbidden, against the law.

    Similar: criminalised, illegalized, illegal, wrongful, crimeful, criminal, illegitimate, illicit, lawbreaking, nonlawful, outlawed, unlawful

  2. not comparable, of a person put beyond the limits of the law, declared an outlaw or declared a criminal.

    Similar: criminalised, felonized

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of outlaw

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: illegal, unlawful, illicit, illegitimate, banished, lawless, prohibited, banned, forbidden, no-go, restricted, barred, forbade, abolished, criminalised, criminalized

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adj an act

Deutschverboten, gesetzwidrig, illegal

adj a person

Deutschvogelfrei, geächtet, rechtlos

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@misc{outlawed_2026,
  title = {outlawed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/outlawed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}