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Significados de forbidding en inglés

Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.

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Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance.

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Examples for "grim"
Examples for "grim"
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It is possible the situation is less grim than it currently appears.
Reuters
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The Baghdad I left behind five years ago was a grim place.
The Guardian
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Scotland's chief medical officer had another grim message for the public today.
BBC
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They bring the grim reality of male violence into our living rooms.
The Guardian
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This was the actual, and often quite grim, reality of the frontier.
Empire of the Summer Moon
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fans gather to watch 'dour German second division football'.
The Guardian
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The opening quarter-hour was dour with neither side taking a dominant role.
The Irish Times
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A dour deduction that Hamish reached, all by himself, just hours ago.
Existence
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And you seem... well, somewhat more dour than I've seen you before.
Proven guilty
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The clinic was located in a dour Victorian hospital in central London.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions

An official prohibition or edict against something.

Uso de forbidding en inglés
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Russia responded with its own law forbidding Americans from adopting Russian children.
The Guardian
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There were rules forbidding group meetings of more than a certain number.
Ahsoka
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Burning in the right way There's something immediately forbidding about debal curry.
BBC
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Fish rippled the water, but Braan insisted on maximum stealth, forbidding fishing.
Genellan: planetfall
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The temperature was deadly cold; the dull houses were rime-covered and forbidding.
Roden's Corner
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This was done in but few instances, the general destitution forbidding it.
A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Havilan...
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The fields are desolate and forbidding, far from the villages social framework.
The new yorker
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The flower of the forbidding plant was the splendor of the forest.
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 / F...
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There was something biting and forbidding in the character of Kate Swift.
Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
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There were no lights near them; the shadows were black and forbidding.
Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
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The house they stopped in front of was rather dingy and forbidding.
Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains; or, A Christmas Succe...
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They landed; but the fearful, and ungrateful slaves continued sullen and forbidding.
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman / Embracing ...
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In the fading light the straggling wood wore a dreary, forbidding look.
The Intriguers
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Hands on hips, she stepped closer to him, however forbidding he looked.
Down river
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Now, though the Colony retains a forbidding edge, those days are gone.
The Guardian
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The four walls of the room were grim and forbidding of aspect.
Everychild / A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young an...
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