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▸ verb: (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
▸ verb: (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
▸ verb: To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
▸ verb: To deprive (with of).
▸ verb: (UK, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
▸ noun: (obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
▸ noun: Something situated or placed in front.
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prevent,
foresee,
anticipate,
preclude,
forbid,
foreclose,
counter,
forstall,
forestal,
prevene,
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