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FORBIDDEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excluded from use or mention
Example:
a taboo subject
Synonyms:
forbidden; out; prohibited; proscribed; taboo; tabu; verboten
Classified under:
Similar:
impermissible (not permitted)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb forbid
Context examples:
"Blow spiders! What's the use of spiders? There isn't anything in them to eat or"—he stopped suddenly, as though reminded of a forbidden topic.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But I always woke and found it an empty mockery; and I was desolate and abandoned—my life dark, lonely, hopeless—my soul athirst and forbidden to drink—my heart famished and never to be fed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The hunters, never more than roughly aware of the position of the ship, nevertheless knew that we were close to the boundaries of the forbidden sea, while Wolf Larsen’s record as a poacher was notorious.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
There were moments in abundance, when, if not by the absence of her mother and sisters, at least by the nature of their employments, conversation was forbidden among them, and every effect of solitude was produced.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He was a man of great size, clad in black armor without blazonry or ornament of any kind, for all worldly display was forbidden by the rules of the military brotherhood to which he belonged.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Did any one, be it East End rough or West End patrician, intrude within the outer ropes, this corp of guardians neither argued nor expostulated, but they fell upon the offender and laced him with their whips until he escaped back out of the forbidden ground.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When the butler would have lit his master's candle, however, he was forbidden.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
"Me loves Parpar," said the artful one, preparing to climb the paternal knee and revel in forbidden joys.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy: but the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
