Forbidding can be categorized as a noun, a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| forbidding - threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "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" | ||
| forbidding - harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie | ||
Verb |
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| forbid - command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" | ||
| forbid - keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" | ||
Noun |
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| forbidding - an official prohibition or edict against something |
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| 1. | adj. | Forbidding thunderclouds. | |
| 2. | adj. | A forbidding scowl. | |
| 3. | verb | The Spanish story will surely end up being extremely costly to other European countries, including France, who is now expelling inciting preachers and forbidding veils and including others who sent troops to Iraq. | |
| 4. | verb | >From the shameful history of slavery in America, the injustice of forbidding people to marry is evident as a denial of a basic human right. | |
| 5. | verb | The American laws forbidding interracial marriage, now struck down, were clearly discriminatory. | |
| 6. | verb | There is a very strict rule forbidding smoking in bed. | |
| 7. | verb | The judge was grave and forbidding. | |
| 8. | verb | A triathlon is a forbidding test of endurance. | |
| 9. | verb | At the end of 2012, the Belarusian president re-introduced serfdom by forbidding the workers of Borisovdrev to quit their jobs. | |
| 10. | verb | The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old fairy, issued orders forbidding any one, on pain of death, to spin with a distaff and spindle, or to have a spindle in his house. | |
| 11. | verb | As scientists learn about our neighboring worlds, they realize how forbidding these places can be. They also document how wonderful our Earth is and how accommodating it is for life. Earth is our oasis in space. | |
| 12. | verb | If on that forbidding moor a difficult and dangerous quest should lie before us, this was at least a comrade for whom one might venture to take a risk with the certainty that he would bravely share it. | |
| 13. | verb | I approached and knocked at the door, which was instantly opened by a tall, gaunt woman with a harsh, forbidding face. | |
| 14. | verb | There were days when Sophia was the old Sophia — the forbidding, difficult Sophia. | |
| 15. | verb | She went out despite her mother forbidding her to do so. | |
| 16. | verb | I forbid you to call me late at night. | |
| 17. | verb | To prevent animal cruelty, many countries forbid Halal and Kosher meat. | |
| 18. | noun | God forbid! | |
| 19. | noun | God forbid that happen to us. | |
| 20. | noun | ‘But I have seen more than that,’ said he, ‘for Hugo Baskerville passed me upon his black mare, and there ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels.’. | |
| 21. | noun | God forbid. | |
| 22. | noun | God forbid! | |
| 23. | noun | God forbid that happen to us. | |
| 24. | noun | ‘But I have seen more than that,’ said he, ‘for Hugo Baskerville passed me upon his black mare, and there ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels.’. | |
| 25. | noun | God forbid. |
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| adj. | |
| Forbidding thunderclouds. |
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| A forbidding scowl. |
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| The Spanish story will surely end up being extremely costly to other European countries, including France, who is now expelling inciting preachers and forbidding veils and including others who sent troops to Iraq. |
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| >From the shameful history of slavery in America, the injustice of forbidding people to marry is evident as a denial of a basic human right. |
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| The American laws forbidding interracial marriage, now struck down, were clearly discriminatory. |
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| There is a very strict rule forbidding smoking in bed. | |
| The judge was grave and forbidding. | |
| A triathlon is a forbidding test of endurance. | |
| At the end of 2012, the Belarusian president re-introduced serfdom by forbidding the workers of Borisovdrev to quit their jobs. | |
| The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old fairy, issued orders forbidding any one, on pain of death, to spin with a distaff and spindle, or to have a spindle in his house. | |
| As scientists learn about our neighboring worlds, they realize how forbidding these places can be. They also document how wonderful our Earth is and how accommodating it is for life. Earth is our oasis in space. | |
| If on that forbidding moor a difficult and dangerous quest should lie before us, this was at least a comrade for whom one might venture to take a risk with the certainty that he would bravely share it. | |
| I approached and knocked at the door, which was instantly opened by a tall, gaunt woman with a harsh, forbidding face. | |
| There were days when Sophia was the old Sophia — the forbidding, difficult Sophia. | |
| She went out despite her mother forbidding her to do so. | |
| I forbid you to call me late at night. |
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| To prevent animal cruelty, many countries forbid Halal and Kosher meat. |
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| God forbid! | |
| God forbid that happen to us. | |
| ‘But I have seen more than that,’ said he, ‘for Hugo Baskerville passed me upon his black mare, and there ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels.’. | |
| God forbid. | |
| God forbid! | |
| God forbid that happen to us. | |
| ‘But I have seen more than that,’ said he, ‘for Hugo Baskerville passed me upon his black mare, and there ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels.’. | |
| God forbid. | |