(~s, ~ding, forbade, ~den)
1.
If you ~ someone to do something, or if you ~ an activity, you order that it must not be done.
They’ll ~ you to marry...
Brazil’s constitution ~s the military use of nuclear energy.
= prohibit
VERB: V n to-inf, V n
2.
If something ~s a particular course of action or state of affairs, it makes it impossible for the course of action or state of affairs to happen.
His own pride ~s him to ask Arthur’s help...
Custom ~s any modernisation.
VERB: V n to-inf, V n
3.
God ~: see god
heaven ~: see heaven