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forbid

[ fer-bid, fawr- ]

verb (used with object)

forbade or forbad or forbid, forbidden or forbid, forbidding.
  1. to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place:

    She forbade him entry to the house.

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  2. to prohibit (something); make a rule or law against:

    to forbid the use of lipstick; to forbid smoking.

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  3. to hinder or prevent; make impossible.

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  4. to exclude; bar:

    Burlesque is forbidden in many cities.



forbid

/ 蹿蓹藞产瑟诲 /

verb

  1. to prohibit (a person) in a forceful or authoritative manner (from doing something or having something)
  2. to make impossible; hinder
  3. to shut out or exclude
  4. God forbid!
    may it not happen
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 蹿辞谤藞产颈诲诲别谤, noun
  • 蹿辞谤藞产颈诲诲补苍肠别, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 蹿辞谤路产颈诲顎僤别谤 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of forbid1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English forbeden, Old English 蹿辞谤产脓辞诲补苍. See for-, bid 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of forbid1

Old English 蹿辞谤产脓辞诲补苍 ; related to Old High German farbiotan , Gothic faurbiudan ; see for- , bid
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Idioms and Phrases

see god forbid .
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Synonym Study

Forbid, inhibit, prohibit, taboo indicate a command to refrain from some action. Forbid, a common and familiar word, usually denotes a direct or personal command of this sort: I forbid you to go. It was useless to forbid children to play in the park. Inhibit implies a checking or hindering of impulses by the mind, sometimes involuntarily: to inhibit one's desires; His responsiveness was inhibited by extreme shyness. Prohibit, a formal or legal word, means usually to forbid by official edict, enactment, or the like: to prohibit the sale of liquor. Taboo, primarily associated with primitive superstition, means to prohibit by common disapproval and by social custom: to taboo a subject in polite conversation.
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Example Sentences

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The Los Angeles City Council also backed a 鈥渟anctuary city鈥 law that forbids city employees and resources from being involved in federal immigration enforcement.

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鈥淪tudents were forbidden to speak their traditional languages at the schools and forced to learn English. Sometimes teachers would wash students鈥 mouths out with lye soap.鈥

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While other states, including Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, have allowed wolf hunts to resume, California still forbids ranchers from taking aggressive measures to stop the predators.

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"This research is very important because it will inform local people how active the volcanoes are, and it will map the area that will be forbidden to access during an eruption," she says.

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Now, however, there are fresh concerns: while Syria under Assad saw political debates repressed, some worry that repression by clerics could end up forbidding some forms of art seen as anti-religious.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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