forbid

Definition

  • verb: to order (someone) not to do something
  • verb: to proscribe from or as if from the position of one in authority
  • synonyms: preclude, hinder, prevent

Examples

  • This is the number you should call if, 'God forbid', you should get into an accident.

  • The company's rules 'forbid' dating among employees.

  • She was 'forbidden' by her parents to marry him.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Go ahead and starve. If she doesn't eat with me... then she doesn't eat at all. Idiots! You can't talk to us like that. I forbid it. Uh... Oh. Am I too late? Shame, I was really going to tell him off this time. Oh, Master, you've returned. - (EXCLAIMS) (..)
    2017 Beauty and the Beast