Associations to the word «Forestalling»

Wiktionary

FORESTALLING, verb. Present participle of forestall
FORESTALLING, noun. The act of one who forestalls.

Dictionary definition

FORESTALLING, noun. The act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne