"disallow" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /dɪsəˈlaʊ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-disallow.wav [Southern-England] Forms: disallows [present, singular, third-person], disallowing [participle, present], disallowed [participle, past], disallowed [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], disallow [infinitive]
Rhymes: -aʊ Etymology: From Middle English disallowen, desallowen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman desalouer, Old French desalöer. By surface analysis, dis- + allow. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|disallowen}} Middle English disallowen, {{m|enm|desallowen}} desallowen, {{der|en|xno|desalouer}} Anglo-Norman desalouer, {{der|en|fro|desalöer}} Old French desalöer, {{surf|en|dis-|allow}} By surface analysis, dis- + allow Head templates: {{en-verb}} disallow (third-person singular simple present disallows, present participle disallowing, simple past and past participle disallowed) Inflection templates: {{en-conj|old=1}}
  1. To refuse to allow
    Sense id: en-disallow-en-verb-g3Vm-sYe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 42 47
  2. To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper Translations (to reject as invalid, untrue, or improper): отхвърлям (othvǎrljam) (Bulgarian), не приемам (ne priemam) (Bulgarian), afkeuren (Dutch), hylätä (Finnish), nicht anerkennen (German), απορρίπτω (aporrípto) (Greek), ακυρώνω (akyróno) (Greek), отверга́ть (otvergátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), отве́ргнуть (otvérgnutʹ) [perfective] (Russian), отклоня́ть (otklonjátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), отклони́ть (otklonítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), rechazar como inválido, falso o impropio (Spanish), döma bort (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-disallow-en-verb-DavxAJSL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 42 47 Disambiguation of 'to reject as invalid, untrue, or improper': 4 93 2
  3. (UK, law, historical) to overrule a colonial legislation by the sovereign-in-privy council Tags: UK, historical Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-disallow-en-verb-9lH5xbd5 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with dis- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 42 47 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with dis-: 28 30 42 Topics: law
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: disallowance

Inflected forms

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