English-Spanish translations for forbid

• negar
• prohibir
  Por lo tanto, es importante prohibir la financiación de estas investigaciones en el ser humano. So we must forbid any financing of this kind of research on human beings.
  Nos parece que hay que prohibir terminantemente el uso de genes resistentes a los antibióticos. It seems to us that we should strictly forbid the use of antibiotic-resistant genes.
  El Consejo no debe prohibir al Parlamento Europeo proponer su contribución a su solución. The Council must not forbid the European Parliament to propose its contribution to the solution.
• vedar
• vetar

Definition of forbid

• To disallow; to proscribe
• To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command
• To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command
• To accurse; to blast
• To defy; to challenge

Examples

• Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden.
• An impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
• What part of "no" do you forbid to understand?

Related words

• forbidden
• forbidding
• forbiddance
• forbidder
• forbid; () ban
• forbid ban
• forbidden fruit
• forbidden fruit is the sweetest
• Forbidden City