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v. To command (someone) not to do something: I forbid you to go.

v. To command against the doing or use of (something); prohibit: forbid smoking on trains.

v. To have the effect of preventing; preclude: Discretion forbids a reply.

v. To disallow

v. To proscribe

v. To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict.

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

v. To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.

v. To accurse; to blast.

v. To defy; to challenge.

verb-intransitive. To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.

To bid or command, as to a thing, that it shall not be done; prohibit by command, or as with authority; issue an order against, as the doing of or being something; interdict: often with a person as indirect object and an act or thing as direct object: as, to forbid the banns (that is, the proclamation of the banns); I forbid you my house (that is, to enter my house).

To prohibit the use or action of; put under ban; restrain within limits.

To prohibit in effect; stand in the way of; prevent: as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.

To defy; challenge.

To utter a prohibition.

v. command against

v. keep from happening or arising; make impossible

"I. iii.21 (405,9) He shall live a man forbid] Mr. Theobald has very justly explained _forbid_ by _accursed_, but without giving any reason of his interpretation."

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