VERB
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prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
Let's avoid a confrontation
avert a strike
head off a confrontation
How To Use forefend In A Sentence
- Thus, we are trained to swallow impish notions that to cease making one abysmal mistake after the next is "cutting and running" or "giving up" or forefend, "quitting. James Campion: Afghanistan: The Original Quagmire
- Now, the person doing the explaining is also mighty elliptical about the whole thing: heaven forefend that someone should come right out and say: Look, you can't do that because these bad things will happen. George MacDonald Completely Loses Me
- Only time will tell how long this latest "truce" subsists but it is unquestionable that Iran now has a strong foothold both in Gaza and Yehuda and the Shomron and heaven forefends it may not even need its nuclear capability to inflict heavy loss on Israel. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- You're asking this of Miss Snark who regularly writes 'gin pail' 'reticule' 'heaven forefend' and '23 skidoo'? Alas, poor Snarklings
- But Heaven forefend that they be actually diverse, individual human beings, unranked and uncontrolled. THE TIME IS NOW
- Deliberation is worth gold and stocks, and it forefends against sorrow.
- Why not rest secure under the Monroe Doctrine that forever forefends European conquest? The Canadian Commonwealth
- The appellant, while admitting that the people may protect themselves against abuses of the freedom of speech safeguarded by the Fourteenth Amendment by prohibiting incitement to violence and crime insists that legislative regulation may not go beyond measures forefending against ‘clear and present danger’ of the use of force against the state.
- Young people love soccer not because of some kind of commie-nazi plot conjured by Saul Alinsky to sap us of our precious juices, but because it's -- heaven forefend -- fun. Dave Zirin: Glenn Beck's Blues: Why the Far Right Hates Soccer
- Fortunately, fans of Fatally-Yours.com, forefend your mundane fear for one that you can stop and start with a flick of a flexible finger with…Wilderness Survival for Girls. Wilderness Survival for Girls (2004)