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

  • (..) We will march until the viciousness and the darkness gives way to the light of righteousness. No man, no myth, no malaise will stop this movement. We forbid it. For we know that it is this darkness that murders the best in us and the best of us. Whether Jimmie Lee Jackson or James Reeb, (..)
    2014 Selma