tabooing

as ininhibit
as inoutlaw
as inprohibit
as ininterdict
as indeny
as indisallow
as inenjoin
as inexcept
as inforbid

Synonyms for tabooing

verb restrict, prevent

Antonyms for tabooing

Word Origin & History

1777 (in Cook's "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean"), "consecrated, inviolable, forbidden, unclean or cursed," explained in some English sources as being from Tongan (Polynesian language of the island of Tonga) ta-bu "sacred," from ta "mark" + bu "especially." But this may be folk etymology, as linguists in the Pacific have reconstructed an irreducable Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu "sacred, forbidden" (cf. Hawaiian kapu "taboo, prohibition, sacred, holy, consecrated;" Tahitian tapu "restriction, sacred;" Maori tapu "be under ritual restriction, prohibited"). The noun and verb are English innovations first recorded in Cook's book.

Example Sentences for tabooing

I inferred rightly that my notoriety was what was tabooing me.

No doubt there was a time when the stage was so profligate that the Puritans were justified in tabooing it altogether.

There is, indeed, a positive harm that results from the tabooing of the theatre by religious people.

The clubs all forbid poker, but the tabooing order is more honored in its breach than its observance.

The tabooing was a less ornamental but more decidedly useful formality, for by it his person was declared sacred and inviolable.

But I can't lose a day of this wonder, and fortunately dear Aunt Ann never dreams of tabooing my sight-seeing.