tabooing
Saytuh-BOO-ing/təˈbuɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of taboo. Use it after is or was, or to name the action.
The club is tabooing any talk of politics at its meetings.
My parents were tabooing phones at the dinner table.
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- 2Putting a taboo on something, so that people must not do it or talk about it.
The tabooing of the old chief's name lasted for years after his death.
Their tabooing of swear words at home only made the kids want to use them more.
Similarbanning, prohibition, stigmatization, proscription
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tabooing 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 → tabooing: add -ing
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