forbid
verb (used with object)
to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place.
was forbidding
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past progressiveof forbid.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Even the term “net neutrality” was forbidding: “It’s a terrible, technical sounding phrase,” he said.
From The Guardian ā May 12, 2016
Previously, a long and costly fight was likely when adult children challenged a conservator who was forbidding family contact.
From Los Angeles Times ā Mar. 16, 2016
I learned along the way as I began to approach former executives at Apple that she was forbidding everyone to speak to me.
From The Guardian ā Nov. 1, 2015
If he was forbidding to start with and inaccessible for so long, consider that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar once looked for what he calls "positive role models" and found them in inanimate objects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sefia wanted to thank her, but the stony silence of the room was forbidding, so she only nodded back.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
