interdict
noun
any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
has interdicted
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present perfectof interdict (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Coast Guard has interdicted more than 6,100 Haitians trying to reach the United States by sea, a huge increase from recent years.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2022
The Coast Guard interdicted 49 Cubans in fiscal 2020, but has interdicted 554, a tenfold increase, so far in fiscal 2021.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
The commonwealth’s attorney’s office in Richmond has interdicted nine people since 2007.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2018
The government at Washington has interdicted the usual exchange of newspapers, for the present.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
I don’t complain of them, though; Puritanism has interdicted to them all art, all excitement, all amusement—except money-making.
From Yeast: a Problem by Charles Kingsley
