forestall
/fɔː(ɹ)ˈstɔːl/ 动词 C2中文： 预先阻止、先发制人、抢先
- To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert. · Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
- To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible. · In French, an aspired h forestalls elision.
- To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
- To deprive (with of).
He/she/it forestalls · 过去式 forestalled · 过去分词 forestalled · -ing形式 forestalling
动词形式
- 原形
- forestall
- He/she/it
- forestalls
- 过去式
- forestalled
- 过去分词
- forestalled
- -ing形式
- forestalling
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Dantès was then guilty, and now he is innocent, and it is as much my duty to free him as it was to condemn him.” Villefort thus forestalled any danger of an inquiry, which, however improbable it might be, if it did take place would leave him defenceless.
“I was about to offer myself, sir,” said the priest; “it is our mission to forestall our duties.”
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