forbid
verb (used with object)
to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place.
were 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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And yet, despite the great promise in these experiments, the challenges to creating an A.I. were forbidding.
From The New Yorker ā Nov. 23, 2015
Rumors spread that many large companies were forbidding their employees to fly in Electras.
From Time Magazine Archive
The surroundings were forbidding, but the captains of the vessels, by their speedy departure, had made going back impossible.
From Roger Davis, Loyalist by Frank Baird
The interior walls of unpainted boards, which had been grateful in August, were forbidding in the chill.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
He banged his fist down upon it, as though he were forbidding anybody to touch it—and also a little as though he himself dared not take it up.
From The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
