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Embargo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In commerce, a restraint on ships, or prohibition of sailing, either out of port, or into port, or both; which prohibition is by public authority, for a limited time. Most generally it is a prohibition of ships to leave a port.

Embargo [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To hinder or prevent ships from sailing out of port, or into port, or both, by some law or edict of sovereign authority, for a limited time. Our ships were for a time embargoed by a law of congress.

2. To stop to hinder from being prosecuted by the departure or entrance of ships. The commerce of the United States has been embargoed.

Embargo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.

Embargo [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.

Embargoed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Stopped; hindered from sailing; hindered by public authority, as ships or commerce.

Embargoed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Embargoes [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Embargoing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Restraining from sailing by public authority; hindering.

Embargoing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Quiescence Roget’s Thesaurus §265

N. rest, stillness, quiescence, stagnation, stagnancy, fixity, immobility, catalepsy, indisturbance, quietism, quiet, tranquility, calm, repose, peace, dead calm, anticyclone|, statue-like repose, silence, not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring, sleep, pause, lull, stand still, standing still, lock, dead lock, dead stop, dead stand, full stop, fix, embargo, resting place, gite, bivouac, home, pillow, haven, goal

V. be quiescent, stand still, lie still, keep quiet, repose, hold the breath, remain, stay, stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time, bring to, heave to, lay to, pull up, draw up, hold, halt, stop, stop short, rest, pause, anchor, cast to an anchor, come to an anchor, rest on one's oars, repose on one's laurels, take breath, stop, stagnate, quieta non movere, let alone, abide, rest and be thankful, keep within doors, stay at home, go to bed, dwell, settle, alight stick, stick fast, stand like a post, not stir a peg, not stir a step, be at a stand, quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay an embargo on

Adj. quiescent, still, motionless, moveless, fixed, stationary, immotile, at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, stock, still, standing still, sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home, becalmed, stagnant, quiet, unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled, calm, restful, cataleptic, immovable, sleeping, silent, still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death, vegetative, vegetating

Adv. at a stand, tout court, at the halt

Phr. requiescat in pace, deus nobis haec otia fecit, "the noonday quiet holds the hill"

Int. stop, stay, avast, halt, hold hard, whoa, hold, sabr karo

Prohibition Roget’s Thesaurus §761

N. prohibition, inhibition, veto, disallowance, interdict, interdiction, injunction, estoppel, embargo, ban, taboo, proscription, index expurgatorius, restriction, hindrance, forbidden fruit, maine law

V. prohibit, inhibit, forbid, put one's veto upon, disallow, enjoin, ban, outlaw, taboo, proscribe, estop, bar, debar, forefend, keep in, keep within bounds, restrain, cohibit, withhold, limit, circumscribe, clip the wings of, restrict, interdict, taboo, put under an interdiction, place under an interdiction, put under the ban, place under the ban, proscribe, exclude, shut out, shut the door, bolt the door, show the door, warn off, dash the cup from one's lips, forbid the banns

Adj. prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive, restrictive, exclusive, forbidding, prohibited, not permitted, unlicensed, contraband, impermissible, under the ban of, illegal, unauthorized, not to be thought of, uncountenanced, unthinkable, beyond the pale

Adv. on no account

Int. forbid it heaven, &c. (deprecation) 766, hands off, keep off, hold, stop, desist, cease and desist, avast, phr, that will never do, don't you dare, forget it, don't even think about doing it, "go ahead; make my day "