Forbid vs Foil - What's the difference?
forbid | foil |
To disallow; to proscribe.
* 1908 ,
To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
* Shakespeare
To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To defy; to challenge.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between forbid and foil
is that forbid is (obsolete) to defy; to challenge while foil is (obsolete) to defile; to soil.As verbs the difference between forbid and foil
is that forbid is to disallow; to proscribe while foil is to prevent (something) from being accomplished or foil can be (mathematics) to multiply two binomials together or foil can be (obsolete) to defile; to soil.As a noun foil is
a very thin sheet of metal or foil can be failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage or foil can be (hunting) the track of an animal.forbid
English
Verb
- Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden .
- the Mole recollected that animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever.
- Have I not forbid her my house?
- An impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
- a blaze of glory that forbids the sight
- He shall live a man forbid .
