forestall
Meaning of forestall
verb
- prevent or obstruct (an anticipated event or action) by taking advance action.
they will present their resignations to forestall a vote of no confidence
Old English foresteall ‘an ambush’ (see fore- and stall). As a verb the earliest sense (Middle English) was ‘intercept and buy up goods before they reach the market, so as to raise the price’ (formerly an offence).
Information about forestall
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of forestall is: forestalls.
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Hyphenation of forestall
fore-stall
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- forestall is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
forestall synonyms
Meaning prevent:
prevent, foreclose, preclude, forbid
Meaning anticipate:
Meaning oppose (a plan, attempt, or ambition) successfully:
Meaning prevent (a plan or attempted action) from progressing, succeeding, or being fulfilled:
Meaning prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding:
Meaning prevent or ward off (an undesirable occurrence):
Meaning remove (a need or difficulty):
Meaning obstruct (someone or something) so as to prevent them from continuing to a destination:
Meaning examine (something) in order to determine its accuracy, quality, or condition, or to detect the presence of something:
Meaning make the movement or flow in (a passage, pipe, road, etc.) difficult or impossible:
Meaning make it difficult for (someone) to do something or for (something) to happen:
Meaning delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder:
Meaning (in various sports) impede (a player in the opposing team) in a manner which constitutes an offence:
Anagrams of forestall
Words that rhyme with forestall
tall, metall, untall, hartall, backstall, bookstall, borstall, buckstall, crystall, estall, fingerstall, footstall, forstall, frontstall, headstall, homestall, install, laystall, preinstall, reinstall, shockstall, stall, thumbstall, uninstall, whipstall, Nuttall, wittall
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