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• v  keep from happening or arising; make impossible
• v  act in advance of; deal with ahead of time

• Germany invades Norway "to forestall a British invasion.
• For them, all these courtroom machinations just dredge up their heartache and forestall closure.
• Less pressure from Wall Street may forestall short-term cuts, enabling papers to shift their focus from quarterly earnings toward rethinking the print game.

• prevent
• foreclose
• preclude
• forbid
• anticipate
• foresee
• counter

News & Articles

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• Bankruptcy filing would forestall Schermerhorn auction
  If the Nashville Symphony Orchestra does file for bankruptcy, experts say that will, at least in the short term, forestall a scheduled June 28 foreclosure auction.
  June 7, 2013 - The Tennessean

Quotes

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• Mitt Romney in Globe and Mail
  I must now stand aside, for our party and our country,Mr. Romney told conservatives. "If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator...
• President Bush in Reuters
  I support the primary objective of this legislation, to forestall reductions in physician payments. Yet taking choices away from seniors to pay physicians is wrong. This bill is objectionable, and I am vetoing it,Bush said in a statement to...