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Definition: FORESTALLED |
FORESTALLEDImperative & past participle1. Of Forestall |
Date "FORESTALLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Crosswords: FORESTALLED |
| Etymologies containing "FORESTALLED": forestall. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Kenya | Restrictive legislation and the government's interventionist approach in the insurance sector has in the past forestalled more flexibility in the insurance companies' investment strategy. (references) |
Lithuania | Right-wing members of parliament boycotted legislative sessions to stall attempts to form a quorum and successfully forestalled Vagnorius' resignation until June, when a quorum passed a no-confidence motion. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FORESTALLED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 58.73% of the time. "FORESTALLED" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 58.73% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 41.27% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "FORESTALLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 阻止 (Damped, Damping, Debar, Debarred, Debarring, Deter, Deterred, Deterring, forestall, forestalling, Preclude, Precluded, Precluding). (various references) | ||||
German | verhinderte (circumvented, impeded, inhibited, prevented). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | orestalledfay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"FORESTALLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: forstalled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FORESTALLED" (pronounced fô'rstÄ"ld) |
| 5 | -s t Ä" l d | reinstalled. |
| 3 | -Ä" l d | dolled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-l-l-o-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: deflaters, deflators, desolater, falderols, fellators, foredates, forestall, foretells, freeloads, refloated. | |
-3 letters: deflater, deflates, deflator, deforest, delators, desalter, desolate, draftees, drollest, falderol, faltered, federals, feedlots, fellated, fellates, fellator, floatels, floaters, foredate, forestal, forested, foretell, fostered, freeload, leaflets, leotards, lodestar, oleaster, reallots, reflated, reflates, refloats, reslated, rostella, solleret, strolled, telfords, treadles. | |
-4 letters: afreets, alerted, allseed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 4F 52 45 53 54 41 4C 4C 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. --- .-. . ... - .- .-.. .-.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001111 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001100 01001100 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F O R E S T A L L E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 004F 0052 0045 0053 0054 0041 004C 004C 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4049523953543546463938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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