forbid
[fərˈbɪd]
Definition:
1. Command against.
2. Keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing.
'forbid' example sentence:
- Brazil's constitution forbids the military use of nuclear energy.
- If, God forbid, something goes wrong, I don't know what I would do.
- The staff are forbidden to tender for private-sector work.
- She was expressly forbidden to touch my papers.
- To do things you would forbid.
- Regulations now forbid any new construction within 500 metres of the site.
- Heaven forbid that he should leave because of me!
- I forbid you the house.
- Forbid it Almighty God!
- New state rules forbid waiters to serve water without asking first.
- Go where you please, but don't come here, I forbid it!
- The country was forbidden to rearm under the terms of the treaty.
- Ministry of Railways rules effectively forbid foreign companies from bidding.
- There was something a little severe and forbidding about her face.
- Iwould forbid myself if I sold the property of my fathers.
- And that code might (god forbid) conflict with my code!
- Even if copyright permits noncommercial sharing, the EULA may forbid it.
- We were forbidden, under pain of imprisonment, to use our native language.
- You can then choose to allow or forbid your browser to run each one.
- No laws forbid payment to volunteers.
- Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Sweden forbid it outright.
- They were forbidden to unionize.
- Does International Law Forbid the Application of Death Penalty.
- No. I forbid it. You cannot.
- It means "forbid someone to do something."
- Lionel has forbidden her ever to mention that name again under his roof.
- Statically forbid polymorphic recursion.
- There is one thing that we did not forbid in our policy.
- Forbid it, Almighty God!
- Brazil says its constitution forbids the private ownership of energy assets.
- They were not forbidden to intermarry with the local people.
- Divorce? It was such a forbidden word.
- This Man must be found and told that I forbid him to raise the dead.
- Some countries began to reform their legal systems and forbid research into human cloning.
- She was shut away and forbidden to read.
- "It is difficult," said Cinnamon, "to forbid a tiger anything it wants."
- Apple might decide to forbid certain types of speech all on its own.
- Naturally, if a soldier wants to smoke we can't forbid this.
- The Church's canon law forbids remarriage of divorced persons.
- We're embarrassed, and we don't want to be, God forbid, hypocrites.
- I forbid him to do that.
- Photography is strictly forbidden in the museum.
- They'll forbid you to marry.
- The conversation was in danger of wandering into forbidden territory.
- My doctor has forbidden me sugar.
- I forbid anyone to touch that clock.
- The house looked dark and forbidding.
- Smoking is strictly forbidden.
- In the interest of safety, smoking is forbidden.
- His own pride forbids him to ask Arthur's help.
- The war was a forbidden subject.
- This was a forbidden area for foreigners.