Crossword-Solution: FORBID 6 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Dictionary

Word Word Type Definition
Forbid - of Forbid
Forbid v. t. To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to
interdict.
Forbid v. t. To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command;
to command not to enter.
Forbid v. t. To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual
command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
Forbid v. t. To accurse; to blast.
Forbid v. t. To defy; to challenge.
Forbid v. i. To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
FORBID anagram BIDFOR, BIRDOF

We have 38 clues for the answer “FORBID”

Clue Answers
prohibit, refuse to allow 1 answer
command against 1 answer
Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store 1 answer
MAKE undesirable 1 answer
"I ___" (what the Latin "veto" means) 1 answer
"God ___ people have hobbies" 1 answer
Opposite of allow 2 answers
Don't allow 3 answers
Refuse admission 4 answers
Forfend 4 answers
frown on 5 answers
COMMEND (ant.) 5 answers
Refuse to allow 5 answers
ENABLE (ant.) 6 answers
ALLOW (ant.) 6 answers
ENDORSE (ant.) 7 answers
COMMISSION (ant.) 8 answers
excommunicate 11 answers
DECLARE ILLEGAL 12 answers
Interdict 21 answers
Enjoin 26 answers
Debar 31 answers
Preclude 33 answers
proscribe 36 answers
Censor 37 answers
disapprove 41 answers
Disallow 44 answers
Abjure 47 answers
rule out 47 answers
Prohibit 49 answers
Outlaw 49 answers
MAKE less excessive 50 answers
Deny 58 answers
Vent 60 answers
Taboo 64 answers
exile 65 answers
Veto 74 answers
Ban 77 answers
✏️ Suggest another clue Know another question for crossword solution "FORBID"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
16 +1

New Suggestion for "FORBID"

Answer (solution)
Clue

Related word tools

Sentences with FORBID (5)

But God left free the Will, for what obeyes Reason, is free, and Reason he made right, But bid her well beware, and still erect, Least by some faire appeering good surpris’d She dictate false, and missinforme the Will To do what God expresly hath forbid.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
But you have never been a man looking upon a woman, and that woman yourself.” “Well.” “Then you know nothing of what such an experience is like—and Heaven forbid that you ever should.” “Nonsense, flatterer! What is it like? I am interested in knowing.” “Put shortly, it is not being able to think, hear, or look in any direction except one without wretchedness, nor there without torture.” “Ah, sergeant, it won’t do—you are pretending,” she said, shaking her head dubiously.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Say, am I vile? Am I not utterly unclean, a wretch Doomed to be banished, and in banishment Forgo the sight of all my dearest ones, And never tread again my native earth; Or else to wed my mother and slay my sire, Polybus, who begat me and upreared? If one should say, this is the handiwork Of some inhuman power, who could blame His judgment? But, ye pure and awful gods, Forbid, forbid that I should see that day! May I be blotted out from living men Ere such a plague spot set on me its brand! CHORUS.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
God forbid!" "She died a woman," said the Ghost, "and had, as I think, children." "One child," Scrooge returned.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
Thy Father, who is holy, wise, and pure, Suffers the hypocrite or atheous priest To tread his sacred courts, and minister About his altar, handling holy things, Praying or vowing, and voutsafed his voice 490 To Balaam reprobate, a prophet yet Inspired: disdain not such access to me.” To whom our Saviour, with unaltered brow:— “Thy coming hither, though I know thy scope, I bid not, or forbid.
Paradise Regained John Milton 1993

Quotes with FORBID (3)

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
For a long while I have believed — this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth function of outsideness — that in every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky or cursed, who are simply born not belonging, who come into the world semi-detached, if you like, without strong affiliation to family or location or nation or race; that there may even be millions, billions of such souls, as many non-belongers as belongers, perhaps; that, in sum,…
Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Allaah subhanahuu, rejects those who refused Allaah’s Shareeah; the laws that are good for the Muslims; the laws that forbid what is evil. Allaah rejects those who follow laws of personal desires and who adopt laws of Kufr such as the laws enforced by the Tartars who were under the control of Gengiz Khan, their king. These laws were a mixture of Judaism, Christianity and laws chosen by their king that suited his desires. Should we prefer these laws to the Sharee`ah of Allaah…
Ibn Kathir Tafsir Ibnu Katsir
Where this answer appears

Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 14 times in crossword archives (1974–2025).