All forestall synonyms

verb forestall

• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• thwart — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
• avert — If you avert something unpleasant, you prevent it from happening.
• preclude — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
• deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
• anticipate — If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• monopolize — to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.
• preoccupy — to absorb or engross to the exclusion of other things.
• foresee — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
• expect — Regard (something) as likely to happen.
• envision — Imagine as a future possibility; visualize.
• predict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
• forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
• project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
• monopolise — to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.
• preempt — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
• obviate — to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.