Synonyms for foreclose
Definitions
- v. 1
To shut up or out; to prevent from doing something.
Related words
- Word family
- forestall
- Other spellings
- forclose
Forms
- Past participle
- foreclosed
e.g. foreclosed → prevented, precluded, forestalled, debarred…
Example sentences
- preclude You can be both kind and firm. One does not preclude the other.
- forestall This campaign cannot forestall new Zika virus outbreaks.
By length
- 3 letters
- bar1
- 4 letters
- stop1
- 5 letters
- avert2, debar
- 6 letters
- forbid2, hinder2
- 7 letters
- prevent2, exclude2, inhibit3
- 8 letters
- prohibit3, preclude2
- 9 letters
- forestall2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (avert2 = 2 syllables).