forbade
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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The rules allowed demonstrators to gather but forbade them from marching.
From BBC
Mr. Kwok now faces up to seven years in prison, and during the trial authorities forbade him from talking to his daughter as a condition of bail.
"We came together to stop war, we came together to build a market. But we always forbade ourselves to think of power."
From BBC
He forbade them to touch them—“I have told you my will! Thwart it at your peril, for I am guided by the ancestral spirits.”
From Literature
But her great-aunt forbade an immense, book-length list of things, and she couldn’t obey them all.
From Literature
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