Definition of forbid

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Forbid (v. t.) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter..

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Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To defy; to challenge.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..
Indulge :: Indulge (v. i.) To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; -- followed by in, but formerly, also, by to..
Forbidding :: Forbidding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forbi.
Negative :: Negative (n.) A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.
Forbidden :: Forbidden (p. p.) of Forbi.
Veto :: Veto (n.) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
Forfend :: Forfend (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
Legal :: Legal (a.) Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating to, law; as, a legal obligation; a legal standard or test; a legal procedure; a legal claim; a legal trade; anything is legal which the laws do not forbid..
Gainsay :: Gainsay (v. t.) To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.
Prohibition :: Prohibition (n.) The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.)..
Shield :: Shield (n.) To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!.
Collusion :: Collusion (n.) An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law..
Frigid :: Frigid (a.) Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service..
Forboden :: Forboden () p. p. of Forbid.
Contraband :: Contraband (v. t.) To declare prohibited; to forbid.
Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army..
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