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- FORESTALL Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of FORESTALL is to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures How to use forestall in a sentence Synonym Discussion of Forestall
- FORESTALL Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Forestall definition: to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance See examples of FORESTALL used in a sentence
- FORESTALL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
FORESTALL definition: 1 to prevent something from happening by acting first: 2 to prevent something from happening by… Learn more
- FORESTALL definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
If you forestall someone, you realize what they are likely to do and prevent them from doing it Large numbers of police were in the square to forestall any demonstrations
- forestall verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and . . .
Definition of forestall verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary forestall something somebody to prevent something from happening or somebody from doing something by doing something first Try to anticipate what your child will do and forestall problems
- Forestall - definition of forestall by The Free Dictionary
To delay, hinder, or prevent (an event, for example) by taking action beforehand: "rehabilitative care, where the goal is not so much to cure disease as it is to forestall further decline" (George Anders)
- forestall - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
forestall (third-person singular simple present forestalls, present participle forestalling, simple past and past participle forestalled) (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert quotations Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action
- Forestall - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
You can break the word forestall into parts to figure out its meaning The prefix fore is one you've seen in words like forewarn, which means "to warn in advance " And you probably know that stall means "delay " So to forestall is to stall in advance, or put another way, to try to prevent or put off something you don't want to happen
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