forestall

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.

   “Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.”

2. fiil To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.

   “In French, an aspired h forestalls elision.”

3. fiil To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
4. fiil To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.

   “What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid?”

5. fiil To deprive (with of).

   “All the better; may / This night forestall him of the coming day!”

6. fiil To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
7. isim An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
8. isim Something situated or placed in front.