Usually means: Preventing something from happening early.
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  1. forestalling: Merriam-Webster
  2. forestalling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. forestalling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Forestalling, forestalling: Wordnik
  5. forestalling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. forestalling: Wiktionary
  7. Forestalling, forestalling: Dictionary.com
  8. forestalling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Forestalling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Forestalling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. forestalling: Rhymezone
  12. Forestalling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. forestalling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. forestalling: FreeDictionary.org
  15. forestalling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. forestalling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. forestalling: Legal dictionary

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  1. forestalling: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (forestalling)

▸ noun:  The act of one who forestalls.

Similar:
preclusion, obviation, forestalment, prevention, forsteal, preemption, postponence, deferring, preventive, postponer, more...

Opposite:
allowing, permitting, enabling, facilitating

Adjectives:
faint, such, continual, successful, proper, inauspicious, odd



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Similar:
preclusion, obviation, forestalment, prevention, forsteal, preemption, postponence, deferring, preventive, postponer, more...

Opposite:
allowing, permitting, enabling, facilitating

Adjectives:
faint, such, continual, successful, proper, inauspicious, odd



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