f 4 o 1 r 1 e 1 s 1 t 1 a 1 l 1 l 1
9 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb keep from happening or arising; make impossible
verb act in advance of; deal with ahead of time
originFrom Middle English forestallen (“to forestall, intercept, ambush, way-lay”), from forestalle (“a forestalling, interception”), from Old English foresteall (“intervention, hindrance of justice, ambush”), from fore- (“ahead of, before”) + steall (“position”), equivalent to fore- + stall.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
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