forbade

[ fer-bad, -beyd, fawr- ]

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verb

a simple past tense of forbid.

Also for·bad [fer-bad, fawr-], /fərˈbæd, fɔr-/, forbid.

Words that may be confused with forbade

forbade , forebode

Words Nearby forbade

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How to use forbade in a sentence

Traditionally, the community has eschewed visitors and strangers to their towns, and strictly forbade outside marriage.
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There are those still living whose sex forbade them to offer their lives, but who gave instead their happiness.
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In 2011, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a NRA-sponsored law that forbade pediatricians from asking about guns in the home.
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Hamas first forbade women from riding on the back of motorcycles, and then from riding on them at all.
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Often they forbade firearms altogether within the limits of a city.
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Pride forbade him to confess himself a homeless, penniless vagabond.
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That my aspirations were satisfied I do not pretend, for ambition forbade any settled feeling of rest or content.
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Jessie forbade her chum to tell, by a hard stare and a determined shake of her head.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret Penrose
His mind with all its sternness ever tended to clemency, and his constitutional prudence, or measure, forbade purposeless excess.
King Robert the Bruce | A. F. Murison
Bishop Fox in his injunctions in 1507 forbade sundry priests to hold any communication with the abbess or with any of the nuns.
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British Dictionary definitions for forbade

forbade

forbad (fəˈbæd)

/ (fəˈbæd, -ˈbeɪd) /

verb

the past tense of forbid

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