English-Spanish translations for outlaw

• desperado
• forajido
  Al Presidente Bush le gusta dárselas de vaquero en la escena internacional, pero amenaza con convertir en forajidos a sus propias fuerzas de paz. President Bush sometimes wants to play the cowboy at international level, but risks turning his own peacekeepers into outlaws in the process.
• fugitivo
• ilegalizar
  Acogemos con satisfacción los esfuerzos realizados por el senador McCain y otros como él en el Congreso de los Estados Unidos para ilegalizar la tortura. We welcome the efforts made by Senator McCain and others like him in the US Congress towards the outlawing of torture.
  Por una parte, tenemos buenas leyes y una nueva estrategia para ilegalizar la discriminación contra las personas como trabajadores y consumidores. On the one hand we have good laws and a new strategy to outlaw discrimination against people as employees and consumers.
  Debe ilegalizar la tortura, garantizar la libertad de prensa y la libertad de expresión e intensificar la lucha contra la corrupción. It must outlaw torture, guarantee press freedom and the free expression of opinion, and press on with the fight against corruption.

Definition of outlaw

• A fugitive from the law
• A person who operates outside established norms
• A wild horse
• One who would be an in-law except that the marriage-like relationship is unofficial
• To declare illegal
• To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement
• To deprive of legal force

Examples

• The main character in the play was a bit of an outlaw who refused to shake hands or say thank you.
• to outlaw a debt or claim
• Laws outlawed by necessity. — Fuller

Related words

• criminalize
• felonize
• misdemeanorize