tabooed
ta-BOOD/tæˈbud/
- 1Not allowed, so people must not do it or use it.
Money was a tabooed subject at our dinner table.
The children giggled whenever someone said one of the tabooed words.
Similarforbidden, banned, prohibited, off-limits, proscribed
Oppositepermitted, allowed, acceptable
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- 2Past tense and past participle of taboo. Use it when talking about something that already happened.
The elders tabooed the old burial ground.
The club tabooed phones at the dinner table.
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tabooed is a form of taboo
taboo, verb: To mark something as not allowed, because of custom or belief. Full entry
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- taboo → tabooed: add -ed
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