All forfend synonyms

verb forfend

• obviate — to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
• warn — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
• caution — Caution is great care which you take in order to avoid possible danger.
• divert — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
• chill — When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze.
• damp — Something that is damp is slightly wet.
• stymie — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
• veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
• spike — an ear, as of wheat or other grain.
• nix — nothing.
• interdict — Civil Law. any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
• taboo — proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable: Taboo language is usually bleeped on TV. Synonyms: prohibited, banned, forbidden, proscribed. Antonyms: allowed, permitted, permissible; sanctioned.
• withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• counter — In a place such as a shop or café, a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served.
• anticipate — If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
• intervene — to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
• interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
• remove — to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.
• interfere — to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
• ward — (Aaron) Montgomery, 1843–1913, U.S. merchant and mail-order retailer.
• deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
• quit — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
• discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
• interrupt — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
• intercept — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• baffle — If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• foil — to cover or back with foil.
• dam — A dam is a wall that is built across a river in order to stop the water flowing and to make a lake.
• frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
• cork — Cork is a soft, light substance which forms the bark of a type of Mediterranean tree.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
• gridlock — the stoppage of free vehicular movement in an urban area because key intersections are blocked by traffic.
• put down — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• tie up — that with which anything is tied.
• zing — vitality, animation, or zest.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• jam up — a stoppage or slowing of motion, work, or the like, due to obstruction, overloading, malfunction, or inefficiency; jam: Your letters didn't go out yesterday because there was a jam-up in the mail room.
• pass on — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• abolish — If someone in authority abolishes a system or practice, they formally put an end to it.
• count out — If you count out a sum of money, you count the notes or coins as you put them in a pile one by one.
• recant — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
• bate — (of hawks) to jump violently from a perch or the falconer's fist, often hanging from the leash while struggling to escape
• leave out — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• cheque — A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.