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Meanings of forbidding in English
Synonyms
Examples for "threatening"
Examples for "threatening"
1
This is threatening Greece today, maybe other states in Europe as well.
2
However, overtreatment should be avoided and life-threatening infections pose a particular problem.
3
Cambodia's government has said it will act against anybody threatening national security.
4
Fibroids are not life threatening; however, they may cause some health problems.
5
Energy and water shortages have become widespread, threatening to fuel public discontent.
1
The family said they're worried something sinister may have happened to her.
2
Back then, technology was seen as sinister in many films, Cork said.
3
There was something sinister in the quiet that reigned in the room.
4
He said it became sinister when they came back a second night.
5
Taiwan says China has sinister intentions, and it must defend its freedoms.
1
Several days later, I heard a new and even more ominous sound.
2
Visit Website Despite these ominous signs, rangers have not given up hope.
3
We're never quite sure who you is, but it sure sounds ominous.
4
June 5... Well, he's paralyzed now, and his future is extremely ominous.
5
Then he smiled; and the smile was more ominous than the sparks.
1
Neither do I want any menacing talk of a Christmas general election.
2
Talk can be emollient, talk can be suggestive, talk can be menacing.
3
The result was far more menacing than plain bone would have been.
4
It is particularly menacing on the night after our national saint's day.
5
Perhaps the menacing cloud she'd seen earlier had backed off, gone away.
1
Perhaps Osborne wants to take the fight to his baleful Leave foes.
2
When the day comes,' she added with a baleful look at me.
3
The regard they fixed on his face was baleful in its intentness.
4
The baleful idea that truth is nudity beset me on every occasion.
5
Our work, then, must be in the face of these baleful influences.
1
His features had lost their delicately benevolent aspect; his words were minatory.
2
The unrestful, the well-organised and minatory sea had been advancing quickly.
3
The harsh, minatory note of that voice sufficiently expressed the fact.
4
The eyebrows were distinctly minatory above eyes that loosed ugly gleams.
5
Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look.
1
She had not heard a word of Colonel Grand's minacious overture.
2
This was the third such attack since the ship dropped anchor in this minacious port.
3
Foreign minority shareholders still complain of being ripped-off by powerful, well-connected - and minacious - business interests.
4
Had it not been for Austria's minacious insistence, Albania would have never been born on Serb occupied territory.
5
The shuttle traders asked the government to legalize and regulate their vanishing trade and thus to save them from avaricious and minacious customs officials.
Usage of forbidding in English
1
Russia responded with its own law forbidding Americans from adopting Russian children.
2
There were rules forbidding group meetings of more than a certain number.
3
Burning in the right way There's something immediately forbidding about debal curry.
4
Fish rippled the water, but Braan insisted on maximum stealth, forbidding fishing.
5
The temperature was deadly cold; the dull houses were rime-covered and forbidding.
6
This was done in but few instances, the general destitution forbidding it.
7
The fields are desolate and forbidding, far from the villages social framework.
8
The flower of the forbidding plant was the splendor of the forest.
9
There was something biting and forbidding in the character of Kate Swift.
10
There were no lights near them; the shadows were black and forbidding.
11
The house they stopped in front of was rather dingy and forbidding.
12
They landed; but the fearful, and ungrateful slaves continued sullen and forbidding.
13
In the fading light the straggling wood wore a dreary, forbidding look.
14
Hands on hips, she stepped closer to him, however forbidding he looked.
15
Now, though the Colony retains a forbidding edge, those days are gone.
16
The four walls of the room were grim and forbidding of aspect.
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