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

  • (..) and for the day confined to fast in fires... ...till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away But that I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold... ...whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul and freeze thy noble veins (..)
    2015 Hamlet