"forestall" meaning in Englisch

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Englisch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Verb (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Siehe auch",
      "orig": "siehe auch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "forestaller"
    },
    {
      "word": "forestallment"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simple present I, you, they"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple present forestall"
    },
    {
      "form": "he forestalls"
    },
    {
      "form": "she forestalls"
    },
    {
      "form": "it forestalls"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple past forestalled"
    },
    {
      "form": "present participle forestalling"
    },
    {
      "form": "past participle forestalled"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "author": "CAPTAIN CHARLES GILSON",
          "place": "LONDON AND GLASGOW",
          "publisher": "BLACKIE & SON LIMITED",
          "ref": "CAPTAIN CHARLES GILSON: ACROSS THE CAMEROONS - A Story of War and Adventure. BLACKIE & SON LIMITED, LONDON AND GLASGOW 1916",
          "text": "\"But the Government took no notice of them until it was too late, until the Germans had forestalled us and taken possession of the country, by buying over the chiefs.\"",
          "title": "ACROSS THE CAMEROONS - A Story of War and Adventure",
          "year": "1916"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "vorwegnehmen, zuvorkommen"
      ],
      "id": "de-forestall-en-verb-l4IDsSyA",
      "sense_index": "1"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "aufkaufen"
      ],
      "id": "de-forestall-en-verb-ZVbU89UI",
      "sense_index": "2"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "verhindern"
      ],
      "id": "de-forestall-en-verb-lF61jVMX",
      "sense_index": "3",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "author": "A. CAHAN",
          "place": "NEW YORK",
          "publisher": "A. S. BARNES & COMPANY",
          "ref": "A. CAHAN: THE WHITE TERROR AND THE RED. A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, NEW YORK A. S. BARNES & COMPANY",
          "text": "\"When they came out of the restaurant, a man, shouldering a stick, was running along the snow-covered pavement, lighting the street-lamps, as though in dread of being forestalled by somebody.\"",
          "title": "THE WHITE TERROR AND THE RED",
          "year": "A. S. BARNES & COMPANY"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eine Person am Weiterkommen hindern, eine Person stoppen"
      ],
      "id": "de-forestall-en-verb-VpcYTbsp",
      "sense_index": "4"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "lang": "Englisch",
      "lang_code": "en"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "avert"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "vorwegnehmen, zuvorkommen",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "vorwegnehmen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "vorwegnehmen, zuvorkommen",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "zuvorkommen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "aufkaufen",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "aufkaufen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "veraltet: verhindern",
      "sense_index": "3",
      "word": "verhindern"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "eine Person am Weiterkommen hindern, eine Person stoppen",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "aufhalten"
    }
  ],
  "word": "forestall"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
    "Englisch",
    "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
    "Verb (Englisch)",
    "siehe auch"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "forestaller"
    },
    {
      "word": "forestallment"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simple present I, you, they"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple present forestall"
    },
    {
      "form": "he forestalls"
    },
    {
      "form": "she forestalls"
    },
    {
      "form": "it forestalls"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple past forestalled"
    },
    {
      "form": "present participle forestalling"
    },
    {
      "form": "past participle forestalled"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "author": "CAPTAIN CHARLES GILSON",
          "place": "LONDON AND GLASGOW",
          "publisher": "BLACKIE & SON LIMITED",
          "ref": "CAPTAIN CHARLES GILSON: ACROSS THE CAMEROONS - A Story of War and Adventure. BLACKIE & SON LIMITED, LONDON AND GLASGOW 1916",
          "text": "\"But the Government took no notice of them until it was too late, until the Germans had forestalled us and taken possession of the country, by buying over the chiefs.\"",
          "title": "ACROSS THE CAMEROONS - A Story of War and Adventure",
          "year": "1916"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "vorwegnehmen, zuvorkommen"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "aufkaufen"
      ],
      "sense_index": "2"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "verhindern"
      ],
      "sense_index": "3",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "author": "A. CAHAN",
          "place": "NEW YORK",
          "publisher": "A. S. BARNES & COMPANY",
          "ref": "A. CAHAN: THE WHITE TERROR AND THE RED. A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, NEW YORK A. S. BARNES & COMPANY",
          "text": "\"When they came out of the restaurant, a man, shouldering a stick, was running along the snow-covered pavement, lighting the street-lamps, as though in dread of being forestalled by somebody.\"",
          "title": "THE WHITE TERROR AND THE RED",
          "year": "A. S. BARNES & COMPANY"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eine Person am Weiterkommen hindern, eine Person stoppen"
      ],
      "sense_index": "4"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "lang": "Englisch",
      "lang_code": "en"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "avert"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "vorwegnehmen, zuvorkommen",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "vorwegnehmen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "vorwegnehmen, zuvorkommen",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "zuvorkommen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "aufkaufen",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "aufkaufen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "veraltet: verhindern",
      "sense_index": "3",
      "word": "verhindern"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "eine Person am Weiterkommen hindern, eine Person stoppen",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "aufhalten"
    }
  ],
  "word": "forestall"
}