different between forestall vs forbear

English

Etymology 1

From 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??(?)?st??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Verb

forestall (third-person singular simple present forestalls, present participle forestalling, simple past and past participle forestalled)

1. (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.

   Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.

2. (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.

   In French, an aspired h forestalls elision.

3. (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
4. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 26

     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.

5. To deprive (with of).
6. (Britain, law) 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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hinder

Derived terms

• forestaller
• forestalment
• forestallment

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English forstal, from Old English foresteall (“an intervention, hindrance (of justice), ambush, assault, offence of waylaying on the highway, fine for such an offence, resistance, opposition”), equivalent to fore- +? stall.

Alternative forms

• foresteal, forsteal, forestal

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??(?).st??l/

Noun

forestall (plural forestalls)

1. (obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
2. Something situated or placed in front.

Anagrams

• fellators

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English forberen, from Old English forberan (“to forbear, abstain from, refrain; suffer, endure, tolerate, humor; restrain; do without”), from Proto-Germanic *fraberan? (“to hold back, endure”); equivalent to for- +? bear. Cognate with Old Frisian forbera (“to forfeit”), Middle High German verbërn (“to have not; abstain; refrain from; avoid”) (Cimbrian forbèeran), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????? (frabairan, “to endure”).

Alternative forms

• forebear (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f???b??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /f???b??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Verb

forbear (third-person singular simple present forbears, present participle forbearing, simple past forbore, past participle forborne or (archaic) forborn)

1. (transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.
2. (intransitive) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
3. (intransitive) To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed.
4. (intransitive) To control oneself when provoked.

   • The kindest and the happiest pair / Will find occasion to forbear.

Derived terms

• forbearance
• forbearant
• forbearer
• forbearing
• forbearingly

Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??.b??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f??.b??/

Noun

forbear (plural forbears)

1. Alternative spelling of forebear
   • [1906] 2004, Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, Ethel Wedgwood tr.

     Sirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold [...]

   • [1936] 2004, Raymond William Firth, We the Tikopia [2]

     One does not take one’s family name therefrom, and again the position of the mother in that group is determined through her father and his male forbears in turn; this too is a patrilineal group.

Anagrams

• forbare