To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
To deprive (with of).
Something situated or placed in front.
To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.
To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.
Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows.
The buttocks.