Answer to "Doesn't allow" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BANS , but the solution may also be FORBIDS which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).

Doesn't allow crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
BANS	33 %	4
FORBIDS	33 %	7
DENIES	33 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Doesn't allow

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• forbids
• prohibits
• disallows
• disagrees
• bodhisattva
• comity
• forbearance
• intention
• neutral
• abstainer
• abstinent
• forbears

Crossword Answer definitions

BANS noun

1. Prohibition.
2. A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
3. The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
4. A curse or anathema.
5. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.

BANS verb

1. To summon; to call out.
2. To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
3. To curse; to execrate.
4. To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
5. To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.

BANS noun

1. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.

BANS noun

1. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result BANS

• Outlaws
• Forbids
• Injunctions
• Disallows
• Blackballs
• Blacks out
• Kicks off a message board, say
• Proscribes
• See 48-Down
• Prohibitions

More clues leading to the result FORBIDS

• Won't hear of
• Nixes
• Proscribes.
• Doesn’t allow

More clues leading to the result DENIES

• Disavows
• Saves, as a goalie
• Controverts
• Gainsays
• Says it isn't so
• Turns down
• Refuses to admit
• Says "I didn't do it!"
• Refuses to allow
• Declares untrue