To impose an embargo on a document.
To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country.
A heavy burden or severe constraint on action or expenditure.
A temporary ban on making certain information public.
An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
A ban on trade with another country.
To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.