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   outlaw

   /ˈaʊtlɔː/

   noun

   • 1. a person who has broken the law, especially one who remains at large or is a fugitive: "bands of outlaws held up trains"
   • ▪ a person deprived of the benefit and protection of the law.

   verb

   • 1. ban or make illegal: "secondary picketing has been outlawed" Similar banbarprohibitforbidvetoembargoboycottmake illegaldisallowproscribeinterdictbanishexilecast outexcludeexpelshut outrepudiatecondemnput a price on someone's headOpposite permitallow
   • ▪ deprive (someone) of the benefit and protection of the law: "he lost the estate in 1626, having been outlawed for non-payment of debts"

   Word Origin late Old Englishūtlaga (noun), ūtlagian (verb), from Old Norse útlagi, noun from útlagr ‘outlawed or banished’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. outlawry noun

   Scrabble Points: 9

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