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[ UK /dˌɪsɐlˈa‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /ˌdɪsəˈɫaʊ/ ]
VERB
  1. 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
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