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• v  command against
• v  keep from happening or arising; make impossible
• s  excluded from use or mention
  forbidden fruit

• The serpent tempts Eve into eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge.
• The nutty flavors and raven tones of forbidden rice were once reserved for Chinese emperors.
• For Juan, the perfect final meal would be flower of egg and tartufo (an Italian ice cream dessert) in goose fat with chorizo and dates, as well as one of the forbidden birds, a .

• forbid
• prohibit
• interdict
• proscribe
• veto
• disallow
• nix
• prevent
• forestall
• foreclose
• preclude
• out
• prohibited
• proscribed
• taboo
• tabu
• verboten

• permit
• allow

News & Articles

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• Italy National Soccer Team Confined to Hotel Amid Brazil Protest
  Italy’s national soccer team, in Brazil for FIFA’s Confederations Cup tournament, has been forbidden from leaving its hotel in Salvador because of security concerns over protests that have spread throughout the country.
  June 21, 2013 - Bloomberg
• 'Forbidden Broadway' revue has wicked fun at expense of stars of stage
  Stars can be hams? Who knew? CATCO pokes fun at Broadway’s spotlight hogs in Forbidden Broadway Greatest Hits: Vol. 1, lyricist Gerard Alessandrini’s off-Broadway revue that spoofs the biggest Broadway stars and hits.
  June 20, 2013 - The Columbus Dispatch
• Big Fish CasinoIntroduces New "Forbidden Island" Slots Game
  SEATTLE, June 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Big Fish , the world's largest producer of casual games, today announced a new explosive and fast-paced slot machine game, "Forbidden Island". This new ...
  June 20, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Jet Li in Guardian Unlimited
  When Jackie Chan and I first wanted to work together 15 years ago, our passion was at its peak. ...... Our desire to succeed was very strong,the 44-year-old Li told The Associated Press. "Now we joke that when we watch the `The Forbidden...
• Deval Patrick in International Herald Tribune
  I am descended from people once forbidden their most basic and fundamental freedoms, a people desperate for hope and willing to fight for it - and so are you,Patrick told the crowd. "This commonwealth, and nation modeled on it, is at its...
• Mark Sanford in New York Times
  This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story,Sanford told to the AP. "A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day."