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forbanned

forbanned is the simple past and past participle of forban.

Meaning of forban

Verb

forban (third-person singular simple present forbans, present participle forbanning, simple past and past participle forbanned)

  1. (archaic, obsolete, poetic, rare, transitive) To exile; banish.
    • That lower down it constitutes correspondential phytostatics, or pressure of vegetable life, grasping matter close with prolonged human fingers in the trees, and forbanning materialism from the very stones.1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation

Questions about forbanned

What is forbanned the simple past and past participle of?
Forbanned is the simple past and past participle of forban.

Words near forbanned in the dictionary

  1. forban
  2. forbanish
  3. forbanished
  4. forbanishes
  5. forbanishing
  6. forbanned
  7. forbanning
  8. forbar
  9. forbare
  10. forbarred
  11. forbars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forbanned (page history and authors); forban (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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