forbid
verb (used with object)
to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place.
have been forbidding
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present perfect progressiveof forbid.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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In an obscure last stand against Hitlerism, many German parents have been forbidding their children to join the Hitler Youths and German Maidens who are excused from school one day each week for "party activities."
From Time Magazine Archive
The tone of my voice must have been forbidding I already had my suspicions.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton
For instance, we have been forbidding the Austrians to join with Germany, to emigrate, or to obtain the raw materials of industry.
From The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell
He was an elderly man, with harsh features, which would have been forbidding, but for a certain air of benevolence which softened their expression.
From Paul Prescott's Charge by Horatio Alger
It was entirely surrounded by a high barbed wire fence, the vicious wire interwoven this way and that into a mesh, the very sight of which must have been forbidding to the ambitious fugitive.
From Tom Slade on a Transport by Thomas Clarity
