Usually means: Prohibited or disallowed by authority.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. forbade: Merriam-Webster
  2. forbade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forbade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forbade: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forbade: Vocabulary.com
  6. Forbade, forbade: Wordnik
  7. forbade: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. forbade: Wiktionary
  9. forbade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. forbade (forbad): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. forbade: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Forbade, forbade: Dictionary.com
  13. forbade: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Forbade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. forbade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Forbade: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. forbade: FreeDictionary.org
  18. forbade: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. forbade: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  20. forbade: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forbade: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forbade: Idioms

(Note: See forbid as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
verb:  (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
verb:  (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.
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