Meaning of OUTLAW
| Pronunciation: | | 'awtlo
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- [n] someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
- [v] declare illegal; outlaw; "Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S."
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| | Synonyms: | | criminal, criminalise, criminalize, crook, felon, illegalise, illegalize, malefactor |
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| | Antonyms: | | decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize | | |
| | See Also: | | abductor, accessary, accessory, arsonist, ban, Billie the Kid, blackmailer, Bonney, bootlegger, briber, censor, coconspirator, conspirator, contrabandist, desperado, desperate criminal, disallow, drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, extortioner, extortionist, firebug, forbid, fugitive, fugitive from justice, gangster, gangster's moll, goon, gun moll, habitual criminal, highbinder, highjacker, hijacker, hood, hoodlum, incendiary, interdict, James, Jesse James, kidnapper, law offender, lawbreaker, liquidator, MacGregor, machinator, mafioso, manslayer, mobster, moll, mooncurser, moonshiner, murderer, offender, parolee, peddler, plotter, probationer, prohibit, proscribe, punk, pusher, racketeer, raper, rapist, recidivist, repeater, Rob Roy, Robert MacGregor, runner, scofflaw, smuggler, snatcher, stealer, strong-armer, suborner, thief, thug, tough, toughie, traitor, treasonist, veto, violator, William H. Bonney, wrongdoer | |
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When her enemy, the infamous Laird of Ravensby, abducts her in order to win his brother's freedom from an English dungeon, Elizabeth Graham finds herself strangely attracted to this notorious privateer. Original. more details ... |
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\Out"law`\, n. [AS. ?tlaga, ?tlah. See {Out}, and {Law}.]
A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of
its protection. --Blackstone.
\Out"law`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Outlawed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Outlawing}.] [AS. ?tlagian.]
1. To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to
declare to be an outlaw; to proscribe. --Blackstone.
2. To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to
outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force. ``Laws
outlawed by necessity.'' --Fuller.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstract, actionable, against the law, alien, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, bad guy, bad person, badman, ban, bandit, banish, bar, barbarian, betrayer, blackball, blacklist, black-market, bootleg, boycott, brigand, cast off, cast out, castaway, chargeable, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, contraband, contrary to law, convict, criminal, crook, cut, cut out, debar, deceiver, declasse, delinquent, deny, deport, deracine, derelict, desperado, desperate criminal, disallow, disfellowship, displaced person, dispose of, double-dealer, DP, eject, elide, eliminate, embargo, emigre, enjoin, eradicate, evictee, evildoer, exclude, exclude from, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, expellee, extradite, felon, felonious, flawed, footpad, forbid, foreign devil, foreigner, fugitate, fugitive, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, gringo, gunman, gunslinger, highwayman, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, inhibit, interdict, irregular, Ishmael, jailbird, Judas, justiciable, lawbreaker, lawless, leper, liquidate, malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, misfeasor, mobster, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, ostracize, outcast, outcast of society, outcaste, outlander, outlawed, outsider, pariah, persona non grata, picaroon, pick out, pirate, preclude, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, public enemy, punishable, purge, quisling, racketeer, refugee, refuse, reject, relegate, remove, renegade, repress, robber, root out, root up, rule out, rusticate, say no to, scofflaw, send away, send down, send to Coventry, shut out, sinner, snub, social outcast, spurn, stranger, strike off, strike out, suppress, swindler, taboo, the Wandering Jew, thief, throw over, throw overboard, thrust out, thug, traitor, tramontane, transgressor, transport, triable, two-timer, Uitlander, ultramontane, unacceptable person, unallowed, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undesirable, unlawful, unofficial, unstatutory, untouchable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, villain, wanderer, weed out, worker of ill, wrongdoer, wrongful |
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