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Forestall

Definition:

(v. t.) To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.
(v. t.) To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance.
(v. t.) To deprive; -- with of.
(v. t.) To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.

Example Sentences:

(1) Mastitis in its complexity has managed to forestall all efforts of eradication in spite of years of research, antibiotics and practical control measures.
(2) His message suggested a Grexit was now inevitable as he stressed the need for EU humanitarian programmes to forestall social implosion in Greece.
(3) From the psychologic standpoint, plastic surgeons are now challenging their patients to help themselves in such an overall program to forestall the effects of aging.
(4) Obama may prefer to consider that his lasting contribution to international affairs has been a landmark diplomatic accord to forestall an Iranian nuclear weapon, or the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba .
(5) Such legislation needs to be carefully designed in order to achieve its objectives and forestall new, financially abusive arrangements.
(6) There is current interest in the possibility of developing interventions that forestall the normal cognitive decline in elderly adults.
(7) Treatment needs to be multidisciplinary in approach, and to be started early to forestall a number of organic complications associated with reduced appetite control and significant overweight.
(8) In patients with chronic symptoms, surgery is indicated to forestall further local infectious complications, and a single-stage sigmoid resection without hysterectomy may be adequate.
(9) In the next century we will see a serious test of whether or not mankind has lost its ability to foresee and forestall the side effects of scientific and technological ingenuity.
(10) The big four are understood to be driving a similarly hard bargain with Spotify, which has had its US launch forestalled by industry negotiations.
(11) This presentation describes the organization of disaster relief work after the earthquake, the rescue of buried victims, the organization of medical resources, and the sanitation work to forestall epidemics.
(12) Prevention of glycosylation with aminoguanidine has forestalled complications in experimental diabetes.
(13) Moreover, neurons are also protected from excitotoxin-induced death by the addition to the culture medium of either superoxide dismutase or mannitol, which scavenge superoxide and hydroxyl radicals, respectively, or serine protease inhibitor, which forestalls formation of xanthine oxidase.
(14) Overdentures designed to prevent direct occlusal trauma to the residual ridge may either forestall or reduce residual ridge resorption.
(15) These results suggest that home nursing care assists patients with forestalling distress from symptoms and maintaining their independence longer in comparison to no home nursing care.
(16) The ability of long-acting fluphenazine decanoate and oral fluphenazine hydrochloride to forestall relapse among newly discharge schizophrenic patients is examined in the context of high and low degrees of social therapy (ST).
(17) There is no need for asymptomatic people with HIV infection to restrict their lives in order to avoid exposure to stressful life experiences or to develop special skills for coping with stress to forestall the progression of HIV illness.
(18) The ultimate strategy lies in improving the quality of life in these communities through adequate housing, sanitation, and health education, and integrating primary prophylaxis into national health care programs to forestall the development of rheumatic fever.
(19) It's an attempt to forestall a controversy that is taking place anyway.
(20) The organize language groups for the elderly appeared urgent in order to forestall a deterioration of their faculties and strengthen those faculties which could be maintained.