Definition of "forbad" [forbad]

• A past tense of forbid. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I took no rest, and greed of gain forbad me give a grain"
• "From such a correspondence, if she could derive neither comfort nor information, she thought she found intimations of its source in the style of Lady Rachel’s letters to her; and she believed it to be such as forbad her too eagerly to wish for an elucidation, probably more painful than the obscurity in which she felt herself lost."
• "What Japan did with their rocketeers when the WWII treaty forbad rocket development was develop Japan's bullet trains."