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tabooing

/təˈbuːɪŋ/

tabooing is the present participle and gerund of taboo.

Meaning of taboo

Verb

taboo (third-person singular simple present taboos, present participle tabooing, simple past and past participle tabooed)

  1. (transitive) To mark as taboo.
    Synonyms:
    tabooize
  2. (transitive) To ban or prohibit.
    • They lunched, but if the subject of Carrados had been tabooed the meal would have been a silent one.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
  3. (transitive) To avoid.

See all 7 meanings of taboo

Noun

tabooing (plural tabooings)

  1. The imposition of a taboo.
    • It is to be desired that in prison and police stations complete lists should be made out of the tabooings upon criminals, especially young prisoners who have not attained full development […]1902, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, volume 29, page 177

Synonyms of tabooing

Forms of tabooing

pluraltabooings

Questions about tabooing

What does tabooing mean?
Tabooing means the imposition of a taboo.
What is tabooing the present participle and gerund of?
Tabooing is the present participle and gerund of taboo.
What part of speech is tabooing?
Tabooing is a noun.
How do you pronounce tabooing?
Tabooing is pronounced /təˈbuːɪŋ/.
What is the plural of tabooing?
The plural of tabooing is tabooings.

Words near tabooing in the dictionary

  1. taboo deformations
  2. tabooed
  3. tabooer
  4. tabooers
  5. tabooification
  6. tabooing
  7. tabooings
  8. tabooisation
  9. tabooisations
  10. tabooise
  11. tabooised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tabooing (page history and authors); taboo (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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