Verb (used with object) : to forestall a riot by deploying police. From Dictionary.com.
July 17th, 2008 at 8: 00 am homeowners insurance cancelations mold … cohort vulnerability forestallment …. ubiquity underflow probabilistically birthdays pore …. From Wordnik.com. [MVN] Reference
The desired object would be equally attained by a miraculous forestallment of those dialectical differences of language which are constantly in process of production. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Shun them as you would deadly vipers, and prevent them by forestallment. ". From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Meantime we cannot refrain from expressing by forestallment our great satisfaction at the successful run and favourable reception of “The Foundling of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
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