Definitions for forbids

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forbids for·bid

Spelling: [fer-bid, fawr-]

IPA: /fərˈbɪd, fɔr-/

Forbids is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 174 anagrams from letters in forbids (bdfiors).

Definitions for forbids

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:
5. to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place:
6. to prohibit (something); make a rule or law against:
7. to hinder or prevent; make impossible.
8. to exclude; bar:

Origin of forbids

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

Examples for forbids

For they were in hopes of prevailing upon my father to forbid his visits.

You can stab a woman multiple times with a knife to become a man, but God forbid you sleep with her.

How often, Clary, must I forbid your unsisterly reflections?

I suppose you will write to the oddities, since you are forbid to see them.

Will he deny me the visits of my dearest friend, and forbid me to correspond with her?

If, God forbid, we were ever not to be together, I respect him so much as the father of my children.

“You go to Heritage, God forbid,” he says of the conservative think tank.

I would be cautious to even pick them up and God forbid I take them home.

I forbid you, on pain of death, to make any more attempts to get the Golden Fleece.

It is an article of faith with this man that there won't be any unruly behavior or, God forbid, any scenes.

“You go to Heritage, God forbid,” he says of the conservative think tank.

I would be cautious to even pick them up and God forbid I take them home.

How often, Clary, must I forbid your unsisterly reflections?

I suppose you will write to the oddities, since you are forbid to see them.

I forbid you, on pain of death, to make any more attempts to get the Golden Fleece.

For they were in hopes of prevailing upon my father to forbid his visits.

If, God forbid, we were ever not to be together, I respect him so much as the father of my children.

You can stab a woman multiple times with a knife to become a man, but God forbid you sleep with her.

Will he deny me the visits of my dearest friend, and forbid me to correspond with her?

It is an article of faith with this man that there won't be any unruly behavior or, God forbid, any scenes.