Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to taboo
Participle: tabooed
Gerund: tabooing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | taboo |
| you | taboo |
| he;she;it | tabooes |
| we | taboo |
| you | taboo |
| they | taboo |
Perfect
| I | have tabooed |
| you | have tabooed |
| he;she;it | has tabooed |
| we | have tabooed |
| you | have tabooed |
| they | have tabooed |
Past
| I | tabooed |
| you | tabooed |
| he;she;it | tabooed |
| we | tabooed |
| you | tabooed |
| they | tabooed |
Pluperfect
| I | had tabooed |
| you | had tabooed |
| he;she;it | had tabooed |
| we | had tabooed |
| you | had tabooed |
| they | had tabooed |
Future
| I | will taboo |
| you | will taboo |
| he;she;it | will taboo |
| we | will taboo |
| you | will taboo |
| they | will taboo |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tabooed |
| you | will have tabooed |
| he;she;it | will have tabooed |
| we | will have tabooed |
| you | will have tabooed |
| they | will have tabooed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | taboo |
| you | taboo |
| he;she;it | taboo |
| we | taboo |
| you | taboo |
| they | taboo |
Perfect
| I | have tabooed |
| you | have tabooed |
| he;she;it | have tabooed |
| we | have tabooed |
| you | have tabooed |
| they | have tabooed |
Imperfect
| I | tabooed |
| you | tabooed |
| he;she;it | tabooed |
| we | tabooed |
| you | tabooed |
| they | tabooed |
Pluperfect
| I | had tabooed |
| you | had tabooed |
| he;she;it | had tabooed |
| we | had tabooed |
| you | had tabooed |
| they | had tabooed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would taboo |
| you | would taboo |
| he;she;it | would taboo |
| we | would taboo |
| you | would taboo |
| they | would taboo |
Perfect
| I | would have tabooed |
| you | would have tabooed |
| he;she;it | would have tabooed |
| we | would have tabooed |
| you | would have tabooed |
| they | would have tabooed |
Imperative
| you | taboo |
| we | Let's taboo |
| you | taboo |
Verbs conjugated like 'taboo'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'taboo'
tabor,
bamboo,
boo,
cabob,
dabao,
detaboo,
haloo,
kabob,
kazoo,
labor,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To ban.
- prohibit
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of kapu. First attested in c. 1777.
2. The p in the Tongan source was misheard as b. See: Tongan 'tapu'.
Sample Sentences
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They lunched, but if the subject of Carrados had been tabooed the meal would have been a silent one. [1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:]