forbid
IPA: fɝbˈɪd
verb
- (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
- (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
- (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
- (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
- (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.
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Examples of "forbid" in Sentences
- Fredericksburg forbids lewd behavior.
- The religion also forbids the practice.
- The terrain for the line proved forbidding.
- Her attitude is rather forbidding and uncommunicative.
- The Chechen customs forbid confiscation from the dead.
- The Great Charter of 1217 forbid the practice outright.
- It forbids to glorify or approve the reign of the Nazis.
- It is the precept forbidding killing that wields the sword.
- The injunction did not forbid the removal of the activists.
- The elative is used in the sense of forbidding or discouraging an action.