forestall

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1. forestall - Noun

2. forestall - Verb

Meaning

To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance.

To deprive; -- with of.

To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.

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It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position. Harold L. Ickes

Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man... Edmund White

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. Albert Schweitzer

The only way to forestall the work of criticism is through censorship, which has the same relation to criticism that lynching has to justice. Northrop Frye

The Three Methods to Forestall the Enemy. Miyamoto Musashi

I like to be candid in my admissions - it is so very disarming ; you forestall the objection which you admit - at least your adversary has scarcely the heart to push to its utmost the advantage which you so meekly confess. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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