Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as forestall.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To forestall.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Obsolete form of
forestall .
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Examples
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I only mention this to forstall the inevitable avalanche of US disinformers who plague these threads and who will shortly be here in force claiming Ah HA!
Weatherwatch 2011
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Current Housing is mainly based on draining Savings instruments for down payment, while high monthly payments forstall future Savings by these Households.
Overspending and Obesity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Were they out at a long lunch, with anonymous sources, when a proposed measure to create a fund, paid for by banks, for the purpose of dismembering failing financial institutions in order to forstall systemic risk to the economy somehow got sold by the right wing echo chamber as a "bailout?"
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And as Secretary Gates just said, the Security Council resolution will not in any way forstall us or the EU or other concerned countries from taking additional steps.
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What the right wing is really trying to forstall is an earlier day when, in order to redeem the trust fund, some tinkering may ALSO have to be done with tax rates paid by the wealthiest one percent.
Spending $1 Billion to Restore Fiscal Sanity - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Were they out at a long lunch, with anonymous sources, when a proposed measure to create a fund, paid for by banks, for the purpose of dismembering failing financial institutions in order to forstall systemic risk to the economy somehow got sold by the right wing echo chamber as a "bailout?"
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And as Secretary Gates just said, the Security Council resolution will not in any way forstall us or the EU or other concerned countries from taking additional steps.
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And she notes this new language in Article 27, inserted almost certainly to forstall a U.S. attack on Iran:
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After his attempts to forstall even having a role call vote on Hillary just how voluntary do you think that her releasing her delegates is going to look?
Obama And McCain Tied In First Poll Since VP Announcement 2009
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Just to forstall the inevitable nonsense "Bart" 's going to spout in reply, the court noted that the EPA itself wasn't denying the scientific facts at issue:
Balkinization 2007
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