- Forestall
- Impede token gesture
- To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or
frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the
effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
- Be aware of and prepare for
- Expect
- Forestall
- Predict
- Realise beforehand
- realize beforehand
- To be before in doing; to do or take before another;
to preclude or prevent by prior action.
- Anticipate
- Forestall
- Render useless
- To settle upon (public land) with a right of
preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by
preemption.
- Forestall
- Head off
- Head off to get rate fixed around five
- Prevent
- Prevent (disaster)
- Steer clear of
- Swear to start then forestall