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Forbidding   /fərbˈɪdɪŋ/  /fɔbˈɪdɪŋ/   Listen
Forbidding

adjective
1.
Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance.  Synonyms: dour, grim.  "A forbidding scowl" , "A grim man loving duty more than humanity" , "Undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"
2.
Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.  Synonyms: baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening.  "Forbidding thunderclouds" , "His tone became menacing" , "Ominous rumblings of discontent" , "Sinister storm clouds" , "A sinister smile" , "His threatening behavior" , "Ugly black clouds" , "The situation became ugly"
noun
1.
An official prohibition or edict against something.  Synonyms: ban, banning, forbiddance.


Forbid

verb
(past forbade; past part. forbidden, obs. forbid; pres. part. forbidding)
1.
Command against.  Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto.  "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store" , "Dad nixed our plans"  Antonyms: allow, permit.
2.
Keep from happening or arising; make impossible.  Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent.  "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project"



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"Forbidding" Quotes from Famous Books



... much questioned motives of his later actions. He was spending a week-end with friends on Long Island—a fishing week-end. Mrs. Jake Van Opus (formerly the lovely Consuelo Root) out of consideration for her eminent guest and with great tact and charm, immediately he arrived made a point of forbidding politics as a subject for discussion in the house, and confined the general conversation exclusively to fish. That this thoughtful act was appreciated by the overworked politician it is needless to remark; he settled ...
— Terribly Intimate Portraits • Noel Coward
... the kinds of business that may be conducted. In country districts it does not usually make so much difference what a man does on his own land; but even there the police power may be exercised, as when the state of Idaho passed a law forbidding the herding of sheep within a certain ...
— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn
... settlers and soldiers might still be red upon the hands of his braves, even though fresh scalps might be dangling at this moment from their shields, what mattered it? Did he not know that the safeguard of the Indian Bureau spread like the wing of a protecting angel over him and his people, forbidding troops to molest or open fire unless they themselves were attacked? Did he not laugh in his ragged shirt sleeve at the policy of the white fool who would permit the red enemy to ride boldly up to his soldiers, count their numbers, inspect their ...
— Warrior Gap - A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. • Charles King
... narrowly, the rider noted his nervous glance, and his shrinking, dreading manner. Harlan's eyes gleamed with suspicion, and in a flash he was off the black and standing before Laskar, forbidding and menacing. ...
— 'Drag' Harlan • Charles Alden Seltzer
... he followed her. She led him to a big confectioner's with two doors and several windows, in each of which was a big notice of the new law forbidding teas or the purchase of chocolates. Inside, she walked up to a girl who was standing by a counter, and who greeted her with a smile. "It is cold outside," she said. "May I have a warm ...
— Simon Called Peter • Robert Keable


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