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Another word for forestall

Verb

  1. To prohibit from occurring by advance planning or action

    2. Idioms:
    See also:

    allow

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Another word for forestall

Verb

  1. To hinder

    2. See also:

    prevent

    hinder

  2. To anticipate

    3. See also:

    prevent

    anticipate

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Sentence Examples

  • But to forestall the French with his whole army was impossible.

  • His wild extravagance, however, forced his father to forestall his creditors by securing his detention in semi-exile in the country, where he wrote his earliest extant work, the Essai sur le despotisme.

  • still refused to grant; he therefore essayed diplomacy, not arms. Nevertheless, to forestall the rescue of the pope by Austrian troops, he sent, in August 1849, an army corps under Oudinot to Civita Vecchia.

  • determined to forestall the possible indignity of the The subordination of his family to an upstart dynasty.

  • The French remedy for an unsuccessful colony has always been to annex more territory, and forestall a possible rival.

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