1keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing
Synonymsforbidding, foreclosing, precluding, preventing,
Typesaverting, avoiding, baffling, bilking, blockading, blocking, crossing, debarring, deflecting, embarrassing, fending off, foiling, frustrating, halting, heading off, hindering, kiboshing, making unnecessary, obstructing, obviating, queering, saving, scotching, spoiling, staving off, stopping, stymieing, stymying, thwarting, warding off,
See alsoforestalling,