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forestalling
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Noun
The act of preventing or deterring something
The prevention of the progress, success, or fulfillment of something
Verb
Present participle for to prevent or keep from happening
Present participle for to preemptively execute, anticipate, or antedate a task or event to prepare for it
Adjective
Used or intended to avert or thwart danger or disaster
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Noun
▲
The act of preventing or deterring something
obviation
deterrence
thwarting
prevention
preclusion
avoidance
determent
obstruction
blockage
hindrance
impediment
interception
stoppage
halt
interruption
prohibition
forestallment
deterence
anticipation
averting
safeguard
elimination
prophylaxis
precluding
deterrent
curb
obstacle
check
restriction
constraint
barrier
limitation
damper
inhibition
restraint
preemption
Noun
▲
The prevention of the progress, success, or fulfillment of something
frustration
blocking
foiling
spoiling
thwarting
obstruction
circumvention
countering
defeat
failure
stopping
balking
US
baulking
UK
checking
crushing
dashing
derailment
disappointment
quashing
scotching
baffling
collapse
crippling
curbing
foundering
hampering
hindering
impediment
setback
snookering
stifling
blow
contravention
hindrance
nonfulfillment
nonfulfilment
prevention
scuppering
unfulfillment
disturbance
nonsuccess
non-success
lack of success
ill-success
adverse fate
hitch
disintegration
disruption
downfall
ruin
ruination
crumpling
crumbling
cropper
cessation
breakdown
falling through
falling apart
fizzling out
conking out
falling to pieces
crash
shutdown
wreck
falling down
neglection
malfunction
interruption
mishap
crackup
stoppage
halt
letdown
break
seizing up
fizzle
buckling
debacle
falling
depression
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to prevent or keep from happening
preventing
foiling
thwarting
stopping
blocking
hindering
checking
impeding
averting
frustrating
precluding
obviating
obstructing
circumventing
deterring
baulking
UK
balking
US
intercepting
helping
anticipating
preempting
parrying
delaying
staving off
heading off
warding off
fending off
nipping in the bud
pre-empting
getting in before
second-guessing
providing against
getting ahead of
beating someone to the draw
beating someone to the punch
beating someone to it
stealing a march on
curbing
hampering
inhibiting
stymieing
restraining
halting
barring
derailing
putting a stop to
defeating
countering
arresting
cramping
restricting
opposing
scuppering
holding back
prohibiting
baffling
scotching
avoiding
trammelling
trammeling
retarding
crimping
dashing
hamstringing
spoiling
ruining
standing in the way of
fettering
counteracting
stalling
beating
shutting out
interfering with
holding up
ruling out
deflecting
forfending
interrupting
putting the kibosh on
snookering
stonewalling
debarring
putting paid to
nullifying
hobbling
outwitting
checkmating
doing for
putting the stopper on
discomfiting
encumbering
limiting
upsetting
repressing
disappointing
slowing down
interdicting
crabbing
defending against
evading
fouling up
handicapping
lousing up
putting the mockers on
putting an end to
sidestepping
upsetting the applecart
stumping
crippling
bilking
crossing
disrupting
neutralizing
US
nobbling
excluding
holding off
taking wind out of
neutralising
UK
steering clear of
forbidding
diverting
circumnavigating
stifling
skirting
shackling
smashing
negating
overturning
bridling
snafuing
embarrassing
eliminating
constraining
taking down
borking
canceling
US
cancelling
UK
sabotaging
cumbering
interfering
hanging up
putting a spoke in someone's wheel
hog-tying
short-circuiting
tying up
getting in the way of
getting in the way
slowing
quashing
staying
saving
rooting
handcuffing
disallowing
manacling
banning
proscribing
offsetting
annulling
bucking
suppressing
clogging
keeping lid on
excepting
resisting
suspending
contravening
obscuring
putting a brake on
giving the slip
cramping one's style
screwing up
playing off
cooking someone's goose
keeping at bay
turning aside
making impossible
throwing a spanner in the works
making it impossible for
picking off
cutting off
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
setting back
getting out of
escaping
bypassing
crashing
unsettling
juking
ditching
wrecking
fending
staving
sparing
reprieving
freeing
disconcerting
shelving
shunting
absolving
exempting
dispensing
keeping off
curtailing
finishing
bottlenecking
putting off
commandeering
burdening
muzzling
discharging
withstanding
throwing a curve
petering out
standing off
forefending
choking
scuttling
invalidating
strangulating
throwing monkey wrench in
squashing
repelling
confounding
shutting off
taking out of play
putting the brakes on
bringing to a close
making an end of
shoving aside
keeping
preventing the occurrence of
factoring out
repulsing
undoing
rattling
boxing in
throwing a spoke in the wheel of
damping
preparing for
counterplotting
blanking
burying
letting
heading off at pass
dampening
chilling
chillin
cooling
acting against
bringing an end to
working against
confining
tying
confusing
straitening
getting the better of
disqualifying
catching
beating down
messing up
taking wind out of sails
putting end to
causing setback
capturing
enmeshing
ensnaring
netting
snagging
removing
tethering
traversing
estopping
foreclosing
turning off
stultifying
shipwrecking
discontinuing
quitting
warding
ceasing
discounting
discarding
dismissing
making impracticable
making it impracticable for
hemming in
dodging
vetoing
recanting
rejecting
abolishing
revoking
outlawing
taking the wind out of your sails
embargoing
ducking
bating
taking away
doing away with
getting rid of
getting round
making unnecessary
eluding
shunning
tabooing
not considering
closing out
closing one's doors to
forgetting about
freezing out
counting out
leaving out
shirking
criminalizing
US
sandbagging
freezing
throttling
screening
censoring
complicating
criminalising
UK
fielding
making illegal
giving the red light to
giving the thumbs down to
shutting down
declaring illegal
saying no
declaring taboo
putting the chill on
weighing down
monkeying with
answering evasively
fighting shy of
fencing off
crushing
overcoming
banjaxing
licking
putting the lid on
giving the run around
dashing one's hope
blockading
detaining
closing off
barricading
closing
damming
keeping back
stemming
controlling
withholding
guarding
blocking off
stopping up
jamming
holding
braking
slowing up
blocking up
plugging
cutting short
bogging down
choking off
smothering
impairing
occluding
ending
squelching
entangling
decelerating
postponing
breaking
undermining
intermitting
holding in
clogging up
walling off
destroying
bunging up
subverting
defending
giving a hard time
inconveniencing
subduing
terminating
quelling
containing
reducing
constricting
remitting
binding
moderating
regulating
procrastinating
stuffing
retardating
sealing
caulking
overloading
charging
staunching
stoppering
loading
lading
deferring
clobbering
reining in
holding down
closing up
plugging up
blocking out
making late
breaking up
putting back
bringing to an end
saddling
dissuading from
weighting
disadvantaging
circumscribing
entrammelling
entrammeling
incommoding
discommoding
fencing
walling
demolishing
leashing
shaking
devastating
filibustering
enjoining
lumbering
marring
slackening
pigeonholing
extinguishing
fazing
overburdening
delimiting
pausing
shattering
lessening
eradicating
dropping
discouraging
oppressing
miring
harming
chaining
overwhelming
ostracizing
US
rebuffing
freighting
proroguing
obliterating
annihilating
denying access
nixing
quieting
protracting
decimating
botching
dragging your feet
corking
straining
prolonging
packing
keeping waiting
shutting in
cracking down on
stemming the flow of
spiking
bottling up
stamping out
bunging
choking up
putting on hold
hanging fire
putting on back burner
filling
saddling with
gagging
playing for time
mucking up
tying down
backing off
breaking off
throwing cold water on
bringing to a standstill
ostracising
UK
bringing to screeching halt
pouring cold water on
putting a damper on
desisting from
leaving off
holding over
cutting out
laying off
packing up
knocking off
holding off on
packing in
giving over
sidetracking
straitjacketing
clotting
weakening
damaging
capping
suffocating
debilitating
attacking
bothering
dishing
worrying
dispatching
disturbing
affecting
putting straitjacket on
incapacitating
ravaging
sidelining
influencing
tampering
causing to wait
causing to stay
boycotting
conflicting
troubling
blacklisting
disabling
threatening
putting a crimp in
filling up
setting limits on
imposing limits on
strangling at birth
reining
indisposing
tying someone's hands
preventing from making progress
wasting time
putting at a disadvantage
swallowing
muffling
jamming up
stanching
keeping from happening
tiing one's hands
bollixing
killing
placing at a disadvantage
making difficult
getting bogged down
putting the damper on
giving disadvantage
taking out
holding at bay
fighting back
governing
putting out of commission
aborting
withdrawing
disempowering
buying time
intervening
renouncing
standing in the way
breaking down
choking back
taming
narrowing down
keeping within the limits of
congesting
bottling
intruding on
keeping in check
bringing to end
bringing to a halt
employing delaying tactics
destabilizing
US
tempering
stunting
countermining
pulling in
slackening pace
keeping under control
keeping a lid on
biting back
keeping in
bogging
demoralizing
US
attenuating
putting on brakes
cutting in
forbidding to
emasculating
sapping
diminishing
decreasing
lagging
abating
heaping
cramming
brimming
softening
destabilising
UK
challenging
demoralising
UK
fortifying
embogging
reefing
loitering
qualifying
dragging through the mud
kicking the can down the road
bolting
securing
locking
jam-packing
topping
backfilling
ramming
queering the pitch of
clipping one's wings
fastening
protecting
strengthening
latching
poking full of holes
letting up
damming up
topping off
ramming in
filling in
cutting down
cutting back
letting down flaps
winding down
losing steam
anchoring it
losing speed
putting the brakes on
hitting the brakes
puzzling
nonplussing
mystifying
flummoxing
adjourning
rescheduling
cornering
tabling
injuring
mothballing
refusing
binding up
taping up
corking up
respiting
routing
hanging on
resisting attack
holding the line
holding the fort
continuing
toppling
queering
blowing
dead-ending
overthrowing
vitiating
throwing a monkey wrench into
razing
shrouding
extending
wracking
keeping out
taxing
lengthening
keeping at arm's length
locking out
unbuilding
skinning
impoverishing
crazing
waiving
snuffing out
making a mess of
putting at risk
bringing down
canceling out
bringing to naught
raining on someone's parade
rendering ineffective
ballsing up
cancelling out
playing havoc with
blowing a hole in
wiping out
putting on the back burner
setting aside
taking a rain check on
carrying over
putting on ice
holding in abeyance
putting in cold storage
putting over
laying on the table
laying over
giving rain check
bringing to a stop
blowing the whistle on
putting a cork in
winding up
closing down
pulling the plug on
overtaxing
slapping down
clamping down on
stressing
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“Dreamers might also experience prophetic dreams that they would convey to others to
forestall
danger.”
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Present participle for to preemptively execute, anticipate, or antedate a task or event to prepare for it
doing in advance
antedating
beating someone to it
doing ahead
getting ahead
Adjective
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Used or intended to avert or thwart danger or disaster
defensive
preventive
resistive
averting
arresting
baulking
UK
balking
US
foiling
checking
frustrating
interrupting
thwarting
in opposition
warding off
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