forbid
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /fɝ'bɪd/
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[edit] Verb
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to forbid (third-person singular simple present forbids, present participle forbidding, simple past forbade or forbad, past participle forbidden)
- To disallow
- To proscribe
- 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- ...the Mole recollected that animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever.
- 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
[edit] Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that in the active form takes the gerund (-ing), but in passive takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Translations
to disallow
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[edit] References
- forbid in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- forbid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913