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UK
/dˌɪsɐlˈaʊ/
]
[ US /ˌdɪsəˈɫaʊ/ ]
[ US /ˌdɪsəˈɫaʊ/ ]
VERB
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command against
I forbid you to call me late at night
Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store
Dad nixed our plans
How To Use disallow In A Sentence
- Drogba has a goal - very similar to Terry's, but from a free-kick on the other side - disallowed for offside.
- Yet another Italian goal was wrongly disallowed for offside. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
- As institutionalized censorship defines real experience by what it disallows, we assume the unseeable must be more real that our own perceptions, holding secret truths known only to higher powers.
- Despite the obvious advantages of a unified perspective for collective political action, the differences among women disallow such a perspective.
- The chairman disallowed the veracity of his report.
- Ashton had a try under the posts disallowed for offside after he raced onto an Adam Mitchell kick through.
- The misconceived refusal to give Charlie Adam a penalty and send off Philippe Senderos on the hour, a spoilsport decision to disallow a goal for Luis Suárez midway through the second half and a red card for the young midfielder Jay Spearing a few minutes later prefaced a crescendo of Fulham attacking which ended with a dreadful Pepe Reina error and a decisive tap-in for Clint Dempsey. Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams
- He also scored a goal at the death that was disallowed for offside. Times, Sunday Times
- The referee disallowed the try for a forward pass.
- He headed way over with the goal gaping, had a goal disallowed for offside and had a good penalty appeal waved away. The Sun