forestall
IPA: fɔrstˈɔɫ
noun
- (obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
- Something situated or placed in front.
verb
- (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
- (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
- (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
- To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
- To deprive (with of).
- (UK, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
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Examples of "forestall" in Sentences
- Inequity needs to be forestalled beforehand.
- This solution will only forestall the issue.
- This was forestalled by the collapse of the deal.
- The move was taken to forestall any trouble he might cause.
- The forestall exploit is the most important activity in the area.
- That might forestall some people from posting here in the future.
- The publics ignorance is the only way that impeachment is forestalled.
- It was just a way of trying to forestall trouble further down the line.
- That should forestall any concerns of length for the foreseeable future.
- That might also forestall criticism of a non global perspective in the article.