Discourage and Prohibit

Discourage

Discourage verb - To lessen the courage or confidence of.

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

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

Usage example: the city prohibits swimming in the lake after dark

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Discourage and prohibit are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Discourage" instead a verb "Prohibit".

use	discourage use	prohibit use
anyone	discourage anyone	prohibit anyone
customers	discourage customers	prohibit customers
player	discourage player	prohibit player
Other words: behavior, units, players, attempts, avatars.

Hide Your Children: While you are allowed in general to make your avatar be a child (referred to as a child avatar in the virtual world), some sims discourage or prohibit child avatars.

Source: Video Game / Second Life
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender had a well known bug: depending on difficulty level, the game would discourage or prohibit the player from flooding the city unless all necessary items had been collected from the city.

Source: Game-Breaking Bug

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