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If you f_____ someone to do something, or if you forbid an activity, you order that it must not be done .If you forbid someone to do something, or if you forbid an activity, you order that it must not be done .
They'll forbid you to marry.
She was shut away and forbidden to read.
Brazil's constitution forbids the military use of nuclear energy.
word forbid
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verb
If you forbid someone to do something, or if you forbid an activity, you order that it must not be done .
They'll forbid you to marry.
She was shut away and forbidden to read.
Brazil's constitution forbids the military use of nuclear energy.
If something forbids a particular course of action or state of affairs, it makes it impossible for the course of action or state of affairs to happen .
His own pride forbids him to ask Arthur's help.
Custom forbids any modernisation.
inflections forbidsforbiddingforbadeforbidden
cefr-level B2

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