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# forbidding

«forbidding» in Mova's school dictionary: **looking unfriendly, frightening or dangerous: a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (forbidding; more forbidding); verb form (forbid, forbids, forbade, forbidden, forbidding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Forbidding means looking unfriendly, frightening or dangerous: a forbidding castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidding/#m1)

2) Forbidding is the -ing form of forbid: telling someone they must not do something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidding/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories to set a scary mood (forbidding mountains, a forbidding look), in rules and signs (a sign forbidding swimming), in Bible stories (God forbidding the fruit).

### examples

- The castle looked dark and forbidding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidding/#x1)
- The head teacher gave us a forbidding stare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidding/#x2)
- There is a sign forbidding dogs on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidding/#x3)
- The forbidding cliffs rose above the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidding/#x4)
- Mum is forbidding sweets before dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidding/#x5)
- The forest seemed forbidding at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidding/#x6)

### note

Two different uses: adjective (unfriendly-looking) and verb form (not allowing). Forms of forbid: forbid, forbade (say «for-BAD»), forbidden.

### In the corpora

- [Daniel kept praying to God three times a day despite a law forbidding it, was thrown to the lions and was kept safe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «forbidding» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forbidding/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.