as in prohibited
that may not be permitted
trespassing is forbidden
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as in banned
to order not to do or use or to be done or used
smoking is forbidden throughout the building we forbid you to see him
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Recent Examples of forbidden
and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 30 July 2024
Céline Sciamma’s audacious vision transports audiences to 18th-century Brittany, a coastal world cloaked in shadows and forbidden desire.
—Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Ever since coastal erosion became a phrase and local legislation came into force in 2001, building a residence so proximate to the water has been forbidden.
—Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Their forbidden, simmering romance anchors an enveloping portrait of a bygone era and a caste as vicious, in its own way, as any of the Mafia clans in Scorsese's crime movies.
—Verb
That this [approach] was forbidden.
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“Forbidden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forbidden. Accessed 11 Dec. 2024.
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