- prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid - keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- foreclose - subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage
--2 is one way to reclaim, repossess
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun foreclosure1
Somebody ----s something