Forestalled

What do we mean by forestalled?

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

To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.

To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.

To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.

To deprive (with of).

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.

Words that are spelled similarly to forestalled:
forestalled, forestaller, forestall, forestalls, forestallers.

Words that rhyme with forestalled:
appalled, bald, enthralled, scald, piebald, so-called, called, stalled, balled, auld, mauled, wald, galled, sprawled, hauled, palled, installed, recalled, walled, snowballed, scrawled, archibald, spauld, uncalled, crawled, socalled, bawled, lolled, fauld, overhauled, dolled, squalled, mothballed, drawled, buchenwald, stonewalled, scrolled, scalled, hald, cauld, trawled, brawled, reinstalled, fernald, greenwald, grunwald, rosenwald, edwald, steigerwald, walde, reinwald, romuald, thorvald, seewald, braunwald, evald, freiwald, grinald, schoenwald.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective forestalled:
judgment, triumph.

Words that sound like forestalled:
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