Forestall vs Expect - What's the difference?
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(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.
To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
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, title= To consider obligatory or required.
To consider reasonably due.
To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
(obsolete) To wait for; to await.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616):
*1825 , (Walter Scott), , A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25:
(obsolete) To wait; to stay.
Forestall is a related term of expect.
As verbs the difference between forestall and expect
is that forestall is while expect is to look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).forestall
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!
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* forestaller * forestalment * forestallmentAnagrams
* English words prefixed with fore-expect
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- Let's in, and there expect their coming.
- The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.
- (Sandys)