| forbear | (noun) a person from whom you are descended | Synonyms: forebear |
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| (verb) resist doing something | Synonyms: refrain |
| (verb) refrain from doing | Synonyms: hold back |
| forbearance | (noun) a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting | - |
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| (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: longanimity, patience |
| forbearing | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: longanimous |
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| forbid | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| forbiddance | (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: inhibition, prohibition |
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| (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbidding |
| forbidden | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: out, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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| forbidding | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| (adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, grim |
| (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbiddance |
| forbiddingly | (adverb) in an unpleasant or menacing manner | - |
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| unforbearing | (adjective) unwilling to endure | - |
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