Noun

• S: (n) ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding (an official prohibition or edict against something)

Verb

• S: (v) ban, censor (forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper))
• S: (v) ban (prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure) "Smoking is banned in this building"
• S: (v) banish, ban (ban from a place of residence, as for punishment)
• S: (v) banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball (expel from a community or group)