forestalling Definition

preclusion, obviation, thwarting, preventing, foiling, aborting, averting, prolonging, avoiding, alleviating, curbing, counteracting, ameliorate, obviate, lessening, delaying, deterring, quelling, triggering, effecting, prefiguring, precipitating, dissuading, derailing, preempting, spurring, defusing, circumventing, prompt, blunting, presaging, staving, impends, hasten, easing, halting, undermining, initiating, enacting, instituting, scuttling, stanching, justifying, countenancing, expediting, minimizing, curtailing, suppressing, neutralizing, forebode, countering, destabilizing, reducing, squelching, legitimating, mitigating, reversing, stem, pacifying, sabotaging, foment, bureaucratize, precluding, saving, unraveling, dampening, exacerbating, entrenching, checkmate, bolstering, foreseeing, protract, retarding, discourage, inhibiting, abolishing, occasioned, stymie, allaying, relieving, scupper, induce, resolving, stabilizing, engendering, undo, foreshadowing, effectuating, overturning, deferring, ossifying, diffusing, truncating, impeding, facilitating, europeanize, portends, capping, smoothing, negate,