Forestall is valid Scrabble Word

Is forestall a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is forestall valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for FORESTALL in dictionary:

VERB:

to prevent
prevent or obstruct (an anticipated event or action) by taking advance action
act in advance of (someone) in order to prevent them from doing something
buy up (goods) in order to profit by an enhanced price.
prevent or guard against in advance
To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.
To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance.
To deprive; -- with of.
To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
keep from happening or arising; make impossible

act in advance of; deal with ahead of time

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to prevent the normal trading in by buying or diverting goods or by persuading persons to raise prices

Words related to FORESTALL

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Words that contain FORESTALL

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How to use FORESTALL in a sentence

In that case I thought that by departing before half-past eight I should be almost certain to forestall him.
He arrived early in the morning, that he might forestall the fishermen and their families in whatever arrangements they might be making for the day.
Suspecting that only tactful intervention would forestall possible murder, I sauntered over from my bench.
Finally, in order to forestall Ivan Nikiforovitch, he determined to enter a complaint against him before the district judge of Mirgorod.
Clark instantly decided to forestall his foe, and to make the attack himself, heedless of the almost impassable nature of the ground and of the icy severity of the weather.
For he preferred to forestall repeated supplication by speedy liberality, rather than mar his kindness by delay.
Though it may seem the hardihood of a boy that I venture to forestall the speech of the elders, yet I pray you to pardon my errors, and be indulgent to my unripe words.
Their leaders will largely deny this last statement, but an examination of their utterances, their actions, and the situation will forestall such denial.
It was important for us in 1870-71 to take Paris quickly, in order to forestall any interference of neutrals.
He could forestall Zorzi by writing to his father and telling him what he sincerely believed to be the truth.

It is not convenient to forestall in this place the results of almost all our coming inquiries.
I will not forestall your judgment by saying anything more of this book, but only wish it may afford as much entertainment as it has me.
He would not forestall her enlightenment from the grim page of his own experience.
Germany, however, was forced to enter Belgium because she had to forestall the planned French advance, and Belgium only awaited this advance to join France.
It is the urgent business of Germany to forestall this attack on the part of the enemy.
Advice was given to the convents, threatening the suspension of religious functions, in order that they should not forestall by celebrating the offices of the following day.
He determined to forestall them, and sent one lord deputy after another to Ireland in charge of the royal interests.
It was decided to forestall it by marching towards them.
An enumeration of the evil doings of a public enemy is the best plan to forestall his future misdeeds.
He wants to forestall their explorations northward and take possession of the Polar realm for England.
And to every point he made the same reply, at the same time watching the missionary closely in order to forestall that cunning run-in under the lifted club.
The object of my first visit a little while ago was to forestall your turning the diagram over to the Weasel.
Hanun determined to forestall the war which he believed to be inevitable, and, in alliance with the Aramaeans, to crush the rising power of David.
During the pauses he withdrew into a corner as if to forestall possible advances.
Try how we will there is no way to forestall the operation of the law of compensation.
Would you forestall God, and would you speak the decrees of God before they are uttered? HOLOFERNES.
They did not know what to do next, and first thought of building a village and then of killing all the neighbouring people to forestall being massacred themselves.
Perhaps, even more urgently, he may have wanted to forestall any British tendency to withdraw from the colony and abandon New South Wales altogether.
He must forestall Daubrecq and get hold of the crystal stopper.
Before this determination had entirely taken form the officers were apprised of the disaffection, and resolved, with true military decision, to forestall the threatened mutiny.
I shall make it a point to ask her to play before Carter gets a chance to forestall me.

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