LekhoriLekhoriTo disallow; to proscribe.
Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden.
To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
Have I not forbid her my house?
To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
An impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
From Middle English forbeden, from Old English forbēodan (“to forbid, prohibit, restrain, refuse, repeal, annul”), from Proto-Germanic *furibeudaną, from *furi + *beudaną. Equivalent to for- (“from, a...
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