18 Inspirational Forestall

forestall used with object to prevent hinder or thwart by action in advance to forestall a riot by deploying police to act beforehand with or get ahead of anticipate to buy up goods in advance in order to increase the price when resold forestall 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 See Synonyms at prevent

of forestall from the Collins English Dictionary Joining clauses Coordination The process called coordination joins two short clauses of equal importance with a conjunction Each clause becomes a main clause in the new sentence Ann went to the bank and withd forestall for forestall at Thesaurus with free online thesaurus antonyms and definitions Find descriptive alternatives for forestall In order to forestall this unhappy eventuality she proposes restricting the use of the money to child care education for the parent or retirement benefits for the parent That being the case Christians must welcome rather than object to any measure to forestall fraudulent conversions

examples of forestall are from the Cambridge English Corpus and from sources on the web These examples are from the Cambridge English Corpus and from sources on the web Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors forestall In order to forestall this unhappy eventuality she proposes restricting the use of the money to child care education for the parent or retirement benefits for the parent That being the case Christians must welcome rather than object to any measure to forestall fraudulent conversions something somebody formal 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 Any plans for a peaceful settlement were forestalled by the intervention of the army