forestall_英语词典（en）

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词源

源自中古英語 forestallen (“防止，阻碍，奇袭，堵截”)，源自forestalle (“阻碍，堵截”)，源自古英語 foresteall (“妨碍司法；奇袭”)，源自fore- (“前面”) + steall (“摆放，放置”)，等价于fore- + stall。

防止，先发制人阻止
transitive
Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
Fred迅速行动防止了灾难发生。
阻止
transitive
In French, an aspirated h forestalls elision.
法语中，有嘘音h时不省略元音。
买断某商品全部存货来囤积居奇
archaic
预见到
She insisted on doing her share of the offices needful to the sick. She arranged his bed so that it was possible to change the sheet without disturbing him. She washed him. […] She did not speak to him much, but she was quick to forestall his wants.
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 26”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
夺取，剥夺（带of）
封锁（道路等）；堵截
英國

词形与写法（6）

词形	标注	转写
forestalls	third-person · singular · present
forestalling	present · participle
forestalled	past · participle · 簡單過去時
foresteal	alternative
forsteal	alternative
forestal	alternative

近义词（1）

派生词（3）

词源

源自中古英語 forstal，源自古英語 foresteall (“阻碍，妨碍；奇袭，袭击；在高速路上阻碍交通；犯阻碍交通的罚款；抵抗，违抗”)，等价于fore- + stall。

词形与写法（1）

词形	标注	转写
forestalls	plural