to forestall
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7.1
- verb
- /fɔrˈstɔl/
:
adelantarse a
- The team implemented new strategies to forestall any delays in the project timeline.
- attempt to forestall
- forestall the attack
- effort to forestall
But then you'll get more resolution and you don't forestall the grief and healing.
- But then you'll get more resolution and you don't forestall the grief and healing.
- So I see most of those efforts to be thinly veiled attempts to forestall death permanently.
- We are forestalling catastrophe right now by printing, but we are only forestalling it.
- And I think there is really nothing, there's no framework in place to forestall that.
- But the I I've never seen enough of a plausible scenario of existential threat to devote large amounts of brain power to to forestall it.
- He took an enormous risk to do that job every day, to forestall all the other things he could have done.
Examples
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Several respondents noted that gaining students' respect early on can often forestall potential discipline problems.
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Now with the threat of annihilation temporarily forestalled, MacArthur pays a worried visit to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Nationalist Chinese on Formosa.
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So these are all international efforts to to forestall a financial crisis.
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What can we be doing to forestall some of the internal conflict?
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We'll do our best to forestall a pitched battle in the village.
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A director might then take action to secure additional credit lines to forestall a potential default.
Academic text (2011) -
How could any British government survive a massacre like this... without making some attempt to forestall it?
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Cells are searched, extra guards are called up, and Alcatraz goes on full alert to forestall any additional trouble.
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From Albany, New York state employees may be asked to shorten their paid workweek to forestall thousands of layoffs.
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Nietzsche's hope was that this tyranny could be forestalled by a new European aristocracy.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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2.3
Stop something from happening or someone from doing it
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4.3
To respond by acting against something
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5.0
To stop something bad from happening
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7.2
To stop something from happening or make it impossible
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6.4
To stop something bad from happening for a while
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5.4
Stop or make something less likely to happen
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6.8
Act before others to stop something or take control of a situation
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4.8
Stop something from happening by acting early
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7.9
To stop something from happening or make it impossible
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9.1
Prevent a problem or need by acting before it happens
To act before something happens to stop it
Act against something to stop or slow it
Antonyms
How Preventive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Forestall comes from fore- ('before') and stall ('a market stand' or 'place'). Imagine standing 'in front of a stall' to act first or to block someone, and that's why to forestall is to act in advance to prevent something.