forbad，英语单词，主要用作及物动词，作及物动词时译为“禁止（forbid的过去式）”。

V-T If you forbid someone to do something, or if you forbid an activity, you order that it must not be done. 禁止

V-T If something forbids a particular course of action or state of affairs, it makes it impossible for the course of action or state of affairs to happen. 使…不可能

They forbad smoking in the office.

他们不让在办公室吸烟。

The teacher forbad the pupils to let off fireworks in the school.

老师禁止学生在学校放烟火。

But there was still something lurking behind, of which prudence forbad the disclosure.

可是这里面还有些蹊跷，为了谨慎起见，她可不敢说出来。