keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing; " My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"

command against; " I forbid you to call me late at night"; " Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"

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

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

To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.

To accurse; to blast.

To defy; to challenge.

To prohibit; command not to do; oppose.

Forbade.

Forbidden, forbid.

Forbidding.

To prohibit; to command not to do.

To disallow; prohibit.

To command against; prohibit; oppose effectually; prevent.

To command not to do; to prohibit; to command not to enter; to hinder; to obstruct.

To utter a prohibition.

To prohibit; to command not to do; to obstruct.

I will come, if you forbid me a hundred times. – The King's Stratagem and Other Stories by Stanley J. Weyman

Did she forbid you? – Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

God forbid that I should harm you. – The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson

Christ forbid That I should raise such dead! – Poems by Muriel Stuart

It is enough, heaven forbid, to drive one mad! – Stories and Pictures by Isaac Loeb Peretz

God of his mercy forbid! – The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12) by Edmund Burke

They wished her to forbid this. – Fated to Be Free by Jean Ingelow

Do you want to forbid me to go? – Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward

And so, the lights growing larger, and the trees falling back before us, and closing up again behind us, as if to forbid retreat, we come to the house. – Some-Christmas-Stories by Dickens, Charles

Heaven forbid that I should put an end to any aim or hope of yours- to anything that is part of yourself. – The Whirlpool by George Gissing

Mr. Ide, do you forbid me to hire this man? – King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

If you forbid me to see him, why I suppose I'll obey you, but I'd have to explain to him, wouldn't I? – We Three by Gouverneur Morris

Cambyses surely would not wish us to suffer from poverty in our last hours, though he does forbid our fathers and friends to visit us." – The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers

Forbid it every guardian power. – Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Matthew L. Davis

" Perhaps they are as they call themselves," the rector had said, " and, if so, heaven forbid that we should not give them their due." – Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

" I don't choose to forbid her," Grace began. – Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells by William Dean Howells

God forbid that I should injure her. – An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope

God forbid arbitrary power should be given into the hands of any man! – The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XII. (of XII.) by Edmund Burke

She could not forbid him. – Gone to Earth by Mary Webb