Word Meaning

Meaning of "forestall" and the crossword clue

- Anticipate
- Anticipate that all will go after the forest
- deliberately put off
- Hinder by anticipating
- prevent in advance
- Thwart in advance
- 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.