Words and phrases that have a meaning related to forestalling:  (144 results)
Often used in the same context:
averting, thwarting, preventing, prolonging, stave off, avoiding, alleviating, curbing, counteracting, ameliorate, obviate, lessening, delaying, deterring, quelling, triggering, effecting, prefiguring, precipitating, dissuading, foiling, 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, cripple, voiding, dovetailing, foretelling, beginning, flushing, asking, auditing, bawling, beginnings, blushes, carrying, chance, chattering, choosing, combination, combinations, commencement, commingling, cropping, dredging, exercise, exertion, flashes, collusive, crude, decent, deflated, depressed, dexterous, entry, equator, expected, eyeball, hedonic, metafictional, rhetorical, shrewd, staggering, sudden, tactical, terrible
More general:
bar, prevention
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— Adjectives for forestalling: faint, such, continual, successful, proper, inauspicious, odd

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