- Prevent - prevent in advance - Ward off - To meet in the way. - To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove
from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity
of going.
- Anticipate - 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.