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An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.countableuncountable
- It is true indeed that a taboo - in order to be a proper taboo - must not rest in the general mind on argument or reason.
- So among the Alfoors of the island of Buru it is taboo to mention the names of parents and parents-in-law, or even to speak of common objects by words which resemble these names in sound.
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Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.countableuncountable
taboo
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Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
- Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.
- Sweets and fats are strictly taboo in my home.
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Culturally forbidden.
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To mark as taboo.transitive
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To ban or prohibit.transitive
- They lunched, but if the subject of Carrados had been tabooed the meal would have been a silent one.
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To avoid.transitive