veto

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

I - noun

1. a vote that blocks a decision (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
vote, ballot, voting, balloting
• Hyponyms:
pocket veto
2. the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature)
• Hypernyms:
power, powerfulness

II - verb

1. vote against;
refuse to endorse;
refuse to assent (Freq. 1)
- The President vetoed the bill
• Syn:
blackball, negative
• Derivationally related forms:
negative (for: negative)
• Hypernyms:
oppose, controvert, contradict
• Hyponyms:
kill, shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote out
• Entailment:
vote
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. command against (Freq. 1)
- I forbid you to call me late at night
- Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store
- Dad nixed our plans
• Syn:
forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, disallow, nix
• Ant:
allow (for: disallow), permit (for: forbid)
• Derivationally related forms:
proscription (for: proscribe), interdict (for: interdict), interdiction (for: interdict), prohibition (for: prohibit), forbidding (for: forbid), forbiddance (for: forbid)
• Hypernyms:
command, require
• Hyponyms:
ban, bar, debar, exclude, enjoin,
outlaw, criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- Sam and Sue veto the movie

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, disallow, nix, blackball, negative
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  permit, allow, let, countenance