verb, noun
verb [VN]
1 to make sth no longer legal:
plans to outlaw the carrying of knives * the outlawed nationalist party
2 (in the past) to make sb an outlaw
noun (used especially about people in the past) a person who has done sth illegal and is hiding to avoid being caught; a person who is not protected by the law:
Robin Hood, the world's most famous outlaw
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for outlaw is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does outlaw appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — outlaw appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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