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forbidden

[fer-bid-n, fawr-]

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verb

a past participle of forbid.

adjective

not allowed; prohibited: a forbidden food in his religion.

Physics. involving a change in quantum numbers that is not permitted by the selection rules: forbidden transition.

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the transfer of heat between two parts of a stationary system, caused by a temperature difference between the parts

pertaining to a mass of radioactive material in which the rate of a chain reaction increases with time

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Related forms

for·bid·den·ly, adverb

for·bid·den·ness, noun

pre·for·bid·den, adjective

self-for·bid·den, adjective

un·for·bid·den, adjective

Can be confused: forbade, forbid, forbidden, forebode (see synonym note at forbid).

Example Sentences

If you can't answer that riddle, you could conduct an entire research project and be forbidden to publish the results.

The government's treatment of police officers, who are forbidden to strike and therefore easy to bully, is unfair.

To succeed, you must override both a normal impulse to attend to new information and curiosity about something forbidden.

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If you can't answer that riddle, you could conduct an entire research project and be forbidden to publish the results.

The government's treatment of police officers, who are forbidden to strike and therefore easy to bully, is unfair.

To succeed, you must override both a normal impulse to attend to new information and curiosity about something forbidden.

People can be made to see reddish green and yellowish blue-colors forbidden by theories of color perception.

The rank odor of sulfurous vapors hints at something primal and forbidden.

There is a universal, undeniably seductive effect of something declared to be forbidden or secret.

Innovation is stifled when artists, inventors, and entrepreneurs are forbidden to riff on others' themes.

Driving while chatting on a mobile phone is common, though specifically forbidden by the new rules.

In this new climate, museums are examining subjects formerly forbidden.

By eight months, infants are capable of concealing forbidden activities and distracting parental attention.

Not all slaves were forbidden from learning to read and write.

Telemarketers would be forbidden to call people who sign on to the list.

Minds will be opened, and many will find themselves liberated to express views previously forbidden.

He tells us photographing the actual cutting is forbidden.

Drugs were no major problem before they were forbidden.

In response to the furor, artists began to avoid forbidden images or conceal them under dotting, stippling and cross-hatches.

Taking a candidate's marital status into account in hiring is justly forbidden by law and best practices alike.

Even on its quiet side, the black sand on the now forbidden island is so hot that a visitor can only briefly set foot on it.

So the judgement is toward the deterministic process that is outlaw, a forbidden path.

Any texts that ran counter to the established message were forbidden.

Unlike at other preserves, riding them is forbidden.

Kosher meat requires salt to draw out the blood, which is forbidden to eat.

Nowadays, the exclusion zone is forbidden territory.

And underage people are forbidden purchasing the alcohol energy drinks.

Presumably the reason why there's not a lot of specificity in determining the genes, is because it's forbidden research.

He was already a thorn under the hide of the apartheid regime, singing things that were forbidden.

Luckily, once you stop worrying about protecting the natives from forbidden knowledge, phaser fire takes it down pretty good.

Yet even services that escaped the forbidden list must now be approved by a company's audit committee.

And librarians, stymied by a gag order, are forbidden to tell anyone.

It was equally forbidden to make laziness or lying seem attractive.

Cars are forbidden and must be left at the entrance bridge.

But in this world of make-believe, composing music is forbidden.

Fahad was forbidden any contact-directly or through his lawyers-with the news media.

Customers are forbidden even to raise their voices.

Wildly eroded badlands look foreboding and forbidden.

Recipients of the letters are forbidden by law from ever telling anyone other than their lawyer that they received the.

Female university students have been forbidden to wear the niqab, covering the entire body.

Saudi women can't travel abroad without permission, and they still are forbidden to drive a car.

They are absolutely forbidden to damage the proxy servers they find open.

Russian helicopter gunships, would be forbidden to fly as well as his fixed-wing aircraft.

According to tradition, a pottery cup that had been contaminated by contact with a forbidden food had to be broken and discarded.

Provincial authorities have forbidden him from flying on safety grounds.

No society prohibits all killing, but what is forbidden differs from one to another.

Unlike at other preserves, visitors are forbidden to ride the elephants.

He brought precious gifts, which he used to pry from them forbidden knowledge.

Animal's blood is seen as a pollutant and is forbidden to be included in a meal.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object), -bade or -bad or -bid, -bid·den or -bid, -bid·ding.

to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place: to forbid him entry to the house.

to prohibit (something); make a rule or law against: to forbid the use of lipstick; to forbid smoking.

to hinder or prevent; make impossible.

to exclude; bar: Burlesque is forbidden in many cities.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English forbeden, Old English forbēodan. See for-, bid¹

Related forms

for·bid·der, noun

Can be confused: forbade, forbid, forbidden, forebode (see synonym note at the current entry).

Synonyms
1, 2. interdict. Forbid, inhibit, prohibit, taboo indicate a command to refrain from some action. Forbid, a common and familiar word, usually denotes a direct or personal command of this sort: I forbid you to go. It was useless to forbid children to play in the park. Inhibit implies a checking or hindering of impulses by the mind, sometimes involuntarily: to inhibit one's desires; His responsiveness was inhibited by extreme shyness. Prohibit, a formal or legal word, means usually to forbid by official edict, enactment, or the like: to prohibit the sale of liquor. Taboo, primarily associated with primitive superstition, means to prohibit by common disapproval and by social custom: to taboo a subject in polite conversation. 3. preclude, stop, obviate, deter.

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World English Dictionary

forbidden (fəˈbɪd^ən)

—*adj*
1.	not permitted by order or law
2.	physics involving a change in quantum numbers that is not permitted by certain rules derived from quantum mechanics, esp rules for changes in the electrical dipole moment of the system

usage It was formerly considered incorrect to talk of forbidding someone from doing something, but in modern usage either from or to can be used: he was forbidden from entering/to enter the building

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Word Origin & History

forbid

O.E. forbeodan, from for- "against" + beodan "to command" (see bid). Common Gmc. compound (cf. Du. verbieden, O.H.G. farbiotan, Ger. verbieten, Goth. faurbiudan). Related: Forbade; forbidden. Forbidding "uninviting" first recorded 1712.

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