Allow and Embargo

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Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.

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Embargo is an antonym for allow.

Nearby Words: allowance, allowable, allowing

Embargo verb - Prevent commerce.

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Allow is an antonym for embargo.

Nearby Words: embargoed, embargoing

Justified in The Secret of Monkey Island (in which the pirates are afraid to sail because there's an evil ghost ship on the loose) and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (in which the Largo Embargo does not allow them to sail).

Source: The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything

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