FORESTALL
forestall
Noun
- An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
- Something situated or placed in front.
Verb
- To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
- Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
- To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
- In French, an aspired h forestalls elision.
- To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
- To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
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