Definitionn. the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively
Last update: October 21, 2015
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Britain, it was true, acting on the initiative of George Canning, had seized the Danish fleet, thus forestalling an action which Napoleon certainly contemplated; but on the other hand Denmark now allied herself with him; and while in Lombardy he heard of the triumphant entry of his troops into Lisbon - an event which seemed to prelude his domination in the Iberian Peninsula and thereafter in the Mediterranean. [Please select]
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But chance sometimes has a disconcerting knack of forestalling even our best-planned schemes. [Please select]
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Maitland began to explain, forestalling the embarrassments of cross-examination. [Please select]
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I was merely forestalling a repair which became more urgent every year. [Please select]
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Meredith, with such promptness as to suggest a forestalling of her husband and daughter. [Please select]
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The docile genius of the species, forestalling our desires, presents us with the basset, a sort of almost footless serpent, which steals into the closest thickets. [Please select]
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As naturally as he could Dion got between Jimmy and the opening on to the terrace, and, forestalling the boy, looked out. [Please select]
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