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📖 Определения и значения для слова forbid

📒 to order somebody not to do something; to order that something must not be done

  • forbid somebody (from doing something) He forbade them from mentioning the subject again.
  • forbid something Her father forbade the marriage.
  • Smoking is strictly forbidden.

📒 to make it difficult or impossible to do something

  • Lack of space forbids further treatment of the topic here.

📒 used to say that you hope that something will not happen

  • ‘Maybe you'll end up as a lawyer, like me.’ ‘God forbid!’
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