What is the difference between prescribe and proscribe?

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Prescribe or proscribe?

Prescribe means to order or recommend something: a doctor prescribes a drug, a rule prescribes a procedure. Proscribe means the opposite: to forbid or ban. The two differ by one letter and mean roughly opposite things, so context alone will not save you.

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prescribe

order or lay down what must be done

To recommend a treatment, or to state officially what should happen.

prescribe antibiotics · the procedure prescribed by law · prescribed reading

proscribeformal

forbid or ban

To prohibit something officially.

a proscribed organisation · proscribed by law

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