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

  • (..) the dead spouse intro. Name, rank, when did he die, how. But not the specifics. Cancer's okay, but no one ever says "lung cancer. " Or, God forbid,"prostate cancer. " How 'bout you? Have any kids? No. No, I don't have any children. - Rufus? Is that Rufus? Uh, is Shirley back (..)
    2005 In Her Shoes