Thesaurus / forfend
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synonyms for forfend
- hinder
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- zing
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- put half nelson on
- throw cold water on
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- declare illegal
- lock up
- put the chill on
- say no
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- continue
- support
- add
- push
- promote
- help
- forward
- encourage
- allow
- advance
- liberate
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- open
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- promote
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- add
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- allow
- sanction
- facilitate
- release
- welcome
- permit
- include
- assist
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How to use forfend in a sentence
Heaven forfend that change in any shape, whether of embellishment or of decay, should fall upon that cottage!
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. VII, DECEMBER 1850, VOL. IIVARIOUSGod forfend that she should come home to-night and find you here!
THE BLACK DOUGLASS. R. CROCKETTUnless they actually set fire to the steeple, which Heaven forfend, we can laugh at them.
THE YOUNG CAVALIERPERCY F. WESTERMANIs it not rather the blind brute instinct of self-protection, forfend what may?
CANADA: THE EMPIRE OF THE NORTHAGNES C. LAUTHeaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a "tendency to progression," "adaptations from the slow willing of animals," etc.!
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN, VOLUME I (OF II)CHARLES DARWINGod forfend that thy life should be required, Francis, though many have been lost in her 40 cause.
IN DOUBLET AND HOSELUCY FOSTER MADISONOf all travelling companionship, forfend us from that of a married man!
EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS, 1748-1846 (VOLUME XXVI)VARIOUSAnd Eliphalet moreover is suspected—Heaven forfend that I should do him wrong!
QUODLIBETJOHN P. KENNEDYLet him wear it on his finger, and if ever he finds himself environed by a great danger, a very great danger—which Allah forfend!
THE LION OF JANINAMR JKAII am sorely afraid I ought not to have answered as I did, for it was—“The blessed saints forfend!”
IN CONVENT WALLSEMILY SARAH HOLTWORDS RELATED TO FORFEND
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- caution
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