Definitions for forbade

forbade for·bade

Spelling: [fer-bad, -beyd, fawr-]
IPA: /fərˈbæd, -ˈbeɪd, fɔr-/

Forbade is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 231 anagrams from letters in forbade (abdefor).

Definitions for forbade

verb

  1. a simple past tense of forbid.

verb (used with object)

  1. to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place:
  2. to prohibit (something); make a rule or law against:
  3. to hinder or prevent; make impossible.
  4. to exclude; bar:

Origin of forbade

before 1000; Middle English forbeden, Old English forbēodan. See for-, bid1

Examples for forbade

Hamas first forbade women from riding on the back of motorcycles, and then from riding on them at all.

At Northampton, Stephen Langton met him, and forbade his violence.

Your tender age, the difference of rank, forbade your union.

His ex-wife knew about his doping, and forbade him from continuing.

He stormed and swore, and forbade Elizabeth ever coming in his sight again.

In 2011, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a NRA-sponsored law that forbade pediatricians from asking about guns in the home.

As an epidemiologist and my mom, what were some things you forbade my sister and me from eating as kids?

There was something about his manner which forbade any further questioning on Wrayson's part.

Often they forbade firearms altogether within the limits of a city.

But Wyrd forbade him to seize any more of men on earth after that evening.

Word Value for forbade
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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