forestalled

forestall[fɔ:'stɔ:l]

• vt.
  • (用先发制人的方法)预防，阻止：

    They forestalled any attempt to steal the jewels by having them moved to a safer place.

    他们把珠宝转移到了一个较为安全的地方，阻止了任何偷窃珠宝的企图。

  • 在…之前行动，比…先采取行动，先发制人，抢先一步；超过，超越，胜过：

    By settling the deal by telephone, Mr. Field had forestalled all his competitors.

    费尔德先生用电话谈妥了那次买卖，他比他所有的竞争对手都占先了一步。

  • (以囤积)垄断(市场)；(为抬高价格)囤积(商品)：

    to forestall the market

    垄断市场

  • [废语]
    • 拦截；截击
    • 用武力阻挡
• 近义词:

  anticipate.obviate.preclude.prevent

• widths
• end one's days
• occupancy
• vascula
• averageable
• put a stop to
• nitrogenous
• spitting images
• if anybody
• agated
• CMEA
• stick by
• at the cost of
• callings
• cold deck
• estreat
• ependyma
• Alpine orogeny
• Hapsburg lip
• find fault (with sb/sth)
• golden age
• refacing
• herb Christopher
• gallon
• finner
• xanthoconite
• proceedest
• pry
• run one's head off
• be under the apprehension that
• EPG
• peau
• cardinal red
• phosphorus trichloride
• Deoxy Sugars
• prefer a charge against someone
• Cepheid variable
• trouser zip
• principates
• pest control
• hypercharge
• point down
• salad
• pleasurer
• hypantrum
• no accounts
• Leucothrix
• railwayed
• (be) made for sb/each other
• colloquial language
• foible
• swooping
• biconic
• reflectoscope
• mother's help
• Schuylkill
• herpet.
• tide hole
• suction piping
• louping ill
• sock hop
• quittances
• hairsbreadths
• oversize control screen
• planetologist
• adaptive zone
• turnover number
• unemployments
• spoliated
• Kapitsa, Pyotr
• (like rats) deserting/leaving a sinking ship
• Benbow, John
• colostomies
• initials
• conglobulated
• rhoophyte
• wax moths
• ripsawing
• the blue blanket
• countenanced
• numberest
• heraldist
• amphicyrtic
• incline forward
• flight conveyor
• domiciliary
• algae bloom
• union hall
• kliegs
• a parting kiss / gift / glance etc
• tertiuss
• third stomach
• backhand welding
• sonolucency
• east germanies
• sb will / would / should etc go far
• Schizophyllum
• get someone on a string
• pythonic
• enigma to