taboo
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1. taboo - Noun
2. taboo - Adjective
3. taboo - Verb
4. taboo - Adjective Satellite
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A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.
To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.
Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.
My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.
To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.
There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.