Foreclose vs Forestall - What's the difference?
foreclose | forestall |
To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments.
To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises.
To prevent from doing something.
To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
* Carew
(obsolete, or, historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
Something situated or placed in front.
To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
(archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
* Milton
* 1919 ,
To deprive (with of ).
* Shakespeare
To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
As verbs the difference between foreclose and forestall
is that foreclose is to repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments while forestall is .foreclose
English
(Foreclosure)Verb
(en-verb)- They have to move out of their house because the bank foreclosed on their mortgage.
- The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.
Derived terms
* foreclosee * forecloser * foreclosure * foreclosableforestall
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) forstal, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
- In French, an aspired h forestalls elision.
- What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid?
- 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.
- All the better; may / This night forestall him of the coming day!