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say it: OWT-lawd
outlawed is an adjective meaning "contrary to or forbidden by law". It carries one recorded sense.
contrary to or forbidden by law
“an illegitimate seizure of power”
“illicit trade”
“an outlaw strike”
“unlawful measures”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for outlawed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.