forestall

Other forms of forestall

past tense

forestalled·

present participle

forestalling·

third person

forestalls·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about forestall

What does forestall mean?

forestall means "keep from happening or arising; make impossible". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in forestall?

forestall has 2 syllables: fore-stall. The stress falls on "stall". In IPA it is /fɔɹˈstɔl/.

What is another word for forestall?

Close synonyms include prevent, foreclose, preclude, forbid, anticipate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is forestall a common word?

forestall is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with forestall?

2 words rhyme with forestall. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.