Forestall Synonyms

fôr-stôl
To anticipate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. anticipate
  2. provide against
  3. be ready for
  4. get ahead of
  5. foresee
  6. counter
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To delay, hinder, or prevent (an event, for example) by taking action beforehand:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. prevent

Words Related to Forestall

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. allow
  2. pre-empt
  3. stem-the-tide
  4. distract-attention-from

Forestall 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.

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

  • A rapid British attack would in any case forestall the concentration of these heterogeneous squadrons.

  • This disappointment of his ambition would not perhaps in itself have sufficed to stir Mehemet Ali to revolt against his master; but it was ominous of perils to come, which the astute pasha thought it wise to forestall.

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