foreclose
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～ keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project"
foreclose
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～ subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage
foredate
— Verb
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～ establish something as being earlier relative to something else
forefend
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～ prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
foregather
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～ collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"
forego
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～ do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas"
forego
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～ lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property"
forego
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～ be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
foreground
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～ move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"