to forbid
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3.0
- verb
- /fərˈbɪd/
- Because the conditions of your parole specifically forbid you from having any contact -of any kind with any union officials.
- forbid someone to enter
- the law forbids
- an order forbids
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Watch on YouTubeThis is a big thing judge forbidding a scientific publication.
- This is a big thing judge forbidding a scientific publication.
- No, Adamus, I forbid you from using that scroll.
- He even enacted a law forbidding anyone from disturbing his quiet.
- Separately, he says stop forbidding philosophers to have money.
- I mean, all kinds of things that the law forbade for children before.
- Because I feel like because I'm not forbidding myself on any of it.
- So The funny thing is my dad actually forbid me to run.
- One is to just pass laws that forbid certain actions and punish those who disobey.
- Outraged Major General Evelyn Barker forbids soldiers from frequenting Jewish shops.
- That is engaging in the activity that we want to forbid.
- There are some people who try to argue that the the Torah does not forbid them.
- I Dan, I forbid you from his mic's open.
- Please don't pass by it, but stop by and and forbid it.
Examples
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The second directive forbids any inmate to engage in any commercial enterprise.
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Or if your wife continues to forbid it, then private security guards should be hired.
Fiction book (1992) -
So The funny thing is my dad actually forbid me to run.
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I forbid you to take that crap!
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- As your father, I forbid you... to see this man Charles Ferry.
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Ground her for a month or so and forbid her to ever see the Goetz kid again.
Fiction book (1993) -
No, Adamus, I forbid you from using that scroll.
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Laws were passed in the United States to forbid the use of x-rays in opera glasses.
Academic text (1991) -
The U.S. Japanese extradition treaty forbids the extradition of Americans charged with political acts.
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I forbid you to look.
Synonyms
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2.3
Stop something from happening or someone from doing it
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1.6
To refuse to let someone have something
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3.3
To officially say that something is not allowed by law
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7.2
To stop something from happening or make it impossible
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8.0
To say no to an idea or plan
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3.9
To refuse to allow something, usually by an official rule
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8.6
To officially order someone to do or not do something, often by a court
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8.6
To forbid something by law or official rule
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9.4
To stop someone or something by an official order
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Etymology
Forbid comes from old English parts: for- meaning 'against' and beodan meaning 'to command', and it is the same root as the simple word bid ('to order'). So to forbid someone is to 'order against' something, which is why it means to tell someone not to do it.