Ban and Discourage

Ban

Ban verb - To order not to do or use or to be done or used.

Usage example: the company absolutely bans smoking within its buildings

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Discourage and ban are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Discourage" instead a verb "Ban".

Nearby Word: banned

Discourage verb - To lessen the courage or confidence of.

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Ban and discourage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ban" instead a verb "Discourage".

worship	ban worship	discourage worship
people	ban people	discourage people
someone	ban someone	discourage someone
use	ban use	discourage use
Other words: practice, discussion, anyone, player, smoking, kids, players, heroes.

A worldwide Ban On Politics has been adopted by a large number of Freemason lodges (which frequently extends to a ban on religious talk as well, to discourage arguments between members of different sects or religions).

Source: Ban on Politics
However, the resultant noise and blood stains, and mission requirements that discourage or even ban killing on higher difficulty levels, make blackjacking the more practical method of enemy elimination.

Source: Back Stab
Even worse is that you can't do a whole lot to discourage this - change the game settings to ban all launchers and the opposing team will keep using the anti-air launcher anyway (they just won't start shooting down your air support until halfway through the game to "fake" playing by the rules).

Source: Spiteful A.I.

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