Synonyms of the word

forestall

• v. (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to…
• v. (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
• v. (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly…
• v. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
• v. To deprive (with of).
• v. (Britain, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the…
• n. (obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
• n. Something situated or placed in front.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

anticipate

• v. (transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
• v. to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
• v. to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
• v. to eagerly wait for (something).

counter

• n. An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
• n. (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
• n. A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which…
• n. One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.
• n. A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of…
• n. (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.
• n. (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although…
• n. In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations…
• n. In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
• n. (wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
• n. (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
• n. (Internet) A hit counter.
• adv. Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
• n. (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.
• n. The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
• v. To contradict, oppose.
• v. (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
• v. To take action in response to; to respond.
• adj. Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.
• adv. In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.
• adv. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
• adv. At or against the front or face.
• n. (obsolete) An encounter.
• n. (nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward…
• n. (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast…
• n. The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
• n. The back leather or heel part of a boot.
• n. (typography) The area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol.

forbid

• v. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
• v. (transitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
• v. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.

foreclose

• v. (transitive) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments;…
• v. (transitive) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged…
• v. (transitive) To prevent from doing something.
• v. (transitive) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

foresee

• v. To anticipate; to predict.
• v. (obsolete) To provide.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

preclude

• v. (transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.

prevent

• v. (transitive) To stop; to keep from.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.