See forestall on Wiktionary
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{
"english": "Comus",
"ref": "1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:",
"text": "What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 26”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:",
"text": "She insisted on doing her share of the offices needful to the sick. She arranged his bed so that it was possible to change the sheet without disturbing him. She washed him. […] She did not speak to him much, but she was quick to forestall his wants.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To anticipate, to act foreseeingly."
],
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[
"anticipate",
"anticipate"
],
[
"foreseeingly",
"foreseeingly"
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]
},
{
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{
"ref": "1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:",
"text": "All the better; may / This night forestall him of the coming day!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To deprive (with of)."
],
"links": [
[
"deprive",
"deprive"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"en:Law"
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fɔː(ɹ)ˈstɔːl/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːl"
}
],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predvarjam",
"sense": "to prevent",
"word": "предварям"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predotvratja",
"sense": "to prevent",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "предотвратя"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predotvrjatjavam",
"sense": "to prevent",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "предотврятявам"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to prevent",
"word": "beletten"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to prevent",
"word": "voorkomen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to prevent",
"word": "estää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to prevent",
"word": "empêcher"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to prevent",
"word": "prévenir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to prevent",
"word": "verhindern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to prevent",
"word": "unterbinden"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "aposóvisi",
"sense": "to prevent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "αποσόβηση"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "nivāraṇ",
"sense": "to prevent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "निवारण"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to prevent",
"word": "prevenire"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to prevent",
"word": "whakataunahua"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to prevent",
"word": "prevenir"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predotvraščátʹ",
"sense": "to prevent",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "предотвраща́ть"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to prevent",
"word": "predupr(ij)editi"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to prevent",
"word": "prevenir"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predugaždam",
"sense": "to anticipate",
"word": "предугаждам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to anticipate",
"word": "ennakoida"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to anticipate",
"word": "anticiper"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to anticipate",
"word": "zuvorkommen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to anticipate",
"word": "vorwegnehmen"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to anticipate",
"word": "anticipar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predvosxiščátʹ",
"sense": "to anticipate",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "предвосхища́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predvarjátʹ",
"sense": "to anticipate",
"word": "предваря́ть"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to anticipate",
"word": "preduhitriti"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to anticipate",
"word": "förekomma"
}
],
"word": "forestall"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
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"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms prefixed with fore-",
"Pages with 1 entry",
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"args": {
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"2": "enm",
"3": "forstal"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "foresteall",
"4": "",
"5": "an intervention, hindrance (of justice), ambush, assault, offence of waylaying on the highway, fine for such an offence, resistance, opposition"
},
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"2": "fore",
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"name": "prefix"
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{
"form": "forestalls",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "forestall (plural forestalls)",
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"English terms with historical senses",
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],
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"An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue."
],
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"ambush",
"ambush"
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[
"plot",
"plot"
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"(obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue."
],
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"historical",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Something situated or placed in front."
]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈfɔː(ɹ).stɔːl/"
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"word": "foresteal"
},
{
"word": "forsteal"
},
{
"word": "forestal"
}
],
"word": "forestall"
}
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