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| Shopping | The largest selection of TABOO products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| ADJECTIVE | 1 | taboo, forbidden, out, prohibited, proscribed, tabu, verboten | Excluded from use or mention |
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| 2 | taboo, tabu | Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands | |
| NOUN | 1 | taboo, tabu | A prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature |
| 2 | taboo, tabu | An inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion | |
| VERB | 1 | taboo | Declare as sacred and forbidden |
| Sounds | taebuw' |
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| Rhymes | babu, bamboo, boo, and 5 more rhymes in buw... |
| Meaning | Excluded from use or mention. |
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| Examples | "a taboo subject" |
| Synonyms | forbidden, out, prohibited, proscribed, tabu, verboten |
| Similar to | impermissible |
| Meaning | Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands. |
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| Synonyms | tabu |
| Similar to | sacred |
| Meaning | A prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature. |
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| Synonyms | tabu |
| Region | Polynesia |
| Broader | bias, prejudice, preconception |
| Verbs | taboo |
| Meaning | An inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion. |
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| Synonyms | tabu |
| Broader | inhibition |
| Verbs | taboo |
| Meaning | Declare as sacred and forbidden. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Broader | restrict |
| Nouns | taboo; taboo |
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