transitive verb. To command (someone) not to do something.

transitive verb. To command against the doing or use of (something); prohibit.

transitive verb. To have the effect of preventing; preclude.

To bid or command, as to a thing, that it shall not be done; prohibit by command, or as with authority; issue an order against, as the doing of or being something; interdict: often with a person as indirect object and an act or thing as direct object: as, to forbid the banns (that is, the proclamation of the banns); I forbid you my house (that is, to enter my house).

To prohibit the use or action of; put under ban; restrain within limits.

To prohibit in effect; stand in the way of; prevent: as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.

To defy; challenge.

To utter a prohibition.

intransitive verb. To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.

transitive verb. To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict.

transitive verb. To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.

transitive verb. To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.

transitive verb. To accurse; to blast.

transitive verb. To defy; to challenge.

verb. To disallow

verb. To proscribe

verb. command against

verb. keep from happening or arising; make impossible

"I. iii.21 (405,9) He shall live a man forbid] Mr. Theobald has very justly explained _forbid_ by _accursed_, but without giving any reason of his interpretation."

god forbid  prevent  to forbid the banns  

Embarrass  avert  avoid  baffle  bilk  

Cid  Kid  Kidd  Kyd  Madrid  

106th  Robert  bite-size  charitableness  donair  

accurse  anticipate  avert  ban  ban  

forbad  forbade  forbidden  forbidding  

forbad  forbade  forbidden  forbidding  forbided