Forbid
[fə'bɪd] or [fɚ'bɪd]
Definition
(verb.) command against; 'I forbid you to call me late at night'; 'Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store'; 'Dad nixed our plans'.
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Definition
(-) of Forbid
(v. t.) To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict.
(v. t.) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.
(v. t.) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
(v. t.) To accurse; to blast.
(v. t.) To defy; to challenge.
(v. i.) To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.
Typed by Dewey
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Prohibit, inhibit, interdict.
Edited by Ahmed
Definition
v.t. to prohibit: to command not to do: (Shak.) to restrain.—n. Forbid′dance prohibition: command or edict against a thing.—adj. Forbid′den prohibited: unlawful.—adv. Forbid′denly (Shak.) in a forbidden or unlawful manner.—adj. Forbid′ding repulsive: raising dislike: unpleasant.—adv. Forbid′dingly.—n. Forbid′dingness.—Forbidden or Prohibited degrees degrees of consanguinity within which marriage is not allowed; Forbidden fruit or Adam's apple a name fancifully given to the fruit of various species of Citrus esp. to one having tooth-marks on its rind.
Edited by Bryan
Examples
- I forbid the house to Riderhood, and I forbid the house to Gaffer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am to understand that you forbid me to tell my aunt what has happened? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Forbid as I, of all men, should do that, my girl! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Well, he would about have matched that woman's face, when she said, 'I forbid the banns. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But a proclamation was soon issued, to forbid it upon pain of death. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Heaven forbid! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I asked Mr. Farebrother to talk to her, because she had forbidden me--I didn't know what else to do, said Fred, apologetically. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Both should be forbidden, in my judgment; I would take the annual produce and no more. Plato. The Republic.
- Without encroaching on forbidden ground, we may venture to say that there can be no doubt between ourselves of that fact. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Your old October was only desirable while forbidden. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Me loves Parpar, said the artful one, preparing to climb the paternal knee and revel in forbidden joys. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In addition, the sale of printed calicoes was forbidden. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Unutterable loathing of a desolate existence past, forbade return. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They were in the ballroom, the violins were playing, and her mind was in a flutter that forbade its fixing on anything serious. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He expressly forbade me to write to you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- One or two such letters she actually indited, but she never sent them: shame and good sense forbade. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In a moment she relapsed into the delirium of fanaticism, and, but that her gentle nature forbade, would have loaded me with execrations. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Papa forbids it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The name of the firm is accidentally blotted in my diary, and my sacred regard for truth forbids me to hazard a guess in a matter of this kind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The law in its majestic equality, writes Anatole France, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep in the streets and to steal bread. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He forbids me to see any strangers; and he orders me, if I read at all, only to read the lightest and the most amusing books. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Order forbids details in a picture--she puts them tidily away; but details give charm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I entirely sympathise with the requeSt. I also regret that diplomatic reserve forbids me to comply with it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Many, already smitten, went home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I approached and knocked at the door, which was instantly opened by a tall, gaunt woman with a harsh, forbidding face. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no active enemies. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is, if you please, like the crops of a rude and forbidding soil--a coarse, distorted thing though living. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Well; but is it true that they have been passing a law forbidding people to give meat and drink to those poor colored folks that come along? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And then you wonder that such a charming moth could come from such a forbidding shell as that. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Sharon