nix

Noun

• a quantity of no importance
  • it looked like nothing I had ever seen before
    
  • reduced to nil all the work we had done
    
  • we racked up a pathetic goose egg
    
  • it was all for naught
    
  • I didn't hear zilch about it
    

Verb

• command against
  • I forbid you to call me late at night
    
  • Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store
    
  • Dad nixed our plans
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  forbid , prohibit , interdict , proscribe , veto , disallow
• Antonyms: 
  permit , allow , let , countenance