FORBID


Meaning of FORBID in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ fə(r)bɪd ]

( forbids, forbidding, forbade, forbidden)

1.

If you forbid someone to do something, or if you forbid an activity, you order that it must not be done.

They’ll forbid you to marry...

Brazil’s constitution forbids the military use of nuclear energy.

= prohibit

VERB : V n to-inf , V n

2.

If something forbids 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 forbids him to ask Arthur’s help...

Custom forbids any modernisation.

VERB : V n to-inf , V n

3.

God forbid: see god

heaven forbid: see heaven

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