forbid
/fɚˈbɪd/ verb A2- To disallow; to proscribe. · Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden.
- To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
- To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command. · An impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
He/she/it forbids · Past forbade · Past participle forbidden · -ing form forbidding
Verb forms
- Base form
- forbid
- He/she/it
- forbids
- Past
- forbade
- Past participle
- forbidden
- -ing form
- forbidding
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
From the library
“We are forbidden to give you any explanation.” Dantès, trained in discipline, knew that nothing would be more absurd than to question subordinates, who were forbidden to reply; and so he remained silent.
“Your orders do not forbid your telling me what I must know in ten minutes, in half an hour, or an hour.
He was a man about five foot nine in height, fifty or so years of age, his hair slightly grizzled, a grayish moustache, a curved nose, and a face which all of them described as fierce and forbidding.”
On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.
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