forbids
USfur-BIDZ/fɚˈbɪdz/UKfuh-BIDZ/fəˈbɪdz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of forbid.
The treaty forbids the use of chemical weapons in combat.
Company policy forbids employees from accepting gifts from clients.
Note
The present-tense form that a rule, a law or a single person takes as subject: the treaty forbids, she forbids. It carries every living use of forbid, including the double-object pattern in which someone is denied something by express command (her father forbids her the house). The older meanings, to curse or to defy, are obsolete, so a modern forbids always signals a prohibition or a hindrance.
forbids is a form of forbid
forbid, verb: To prohibit or disallow something by refusing to permit it. Full entry
- Forms
- forbidforbids he/she/itforbidding -ing formforbade past tenseforbidden past participle
- Spelling
- forbid → forbids: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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