To prohibit : v.tr. (word from Latin forbid, dicere : say).
The verb “forbid” has several meanings:
1. To defend (something to someone).
The doctor forbade him salt (forbid, proscribe).
Block your door to intruders (consign).
I forbid you to answer him.
(Without expressed indirect complement): Prohibit games of chance (prohibit, proscribe).
Meetings were banned.
Ban a work (censor, condemn).
imper. It is expressly, formally forbidden to smoke in the room.
I am forbidden to talk about it.
Phrase: It is forbidden to prohibit, slogan from 1968.
To forbid something (to oneself): to impose on oneself the deprivation of.
Forbid any excess (avoid).
He forbids himself to think about it (denying himself).
2. Things: Prevent. Discretion forbids me to say more.
Their belligerent attitude forbids any hope of peace (exclude, oppose, obstruct).
French writer quote Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869): “My health, which does not forbid me work, forbids me all joy”.
3. Hitting (someone) with a ban.
Ban a judicial officer for six months (suspend).
4. Aged sense: To throw (someone) into astonishment, such a disturbance that it deprives him of the ability to speak and act.
Quote from the writer and playwright Jean-François Regnard (1655-1709): “this sudden speech has something to forbid me” (confuse, disconcert, disturb; forbidden).
Opposites of prohibit: approve, authorize, order, allow.