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forfend

[ UK /fˈɔːfənd/ ]
VERB
  1. prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
    Let's avoid a confrontation
    avert a strike
    head off a confrontation

How To Use forfend In A Sentence

  • You weren't looking for another mother -- heaven forfend, as Hub used to say. PROSPECT HILL
  • To be so rhythmic while a rhymester - may heaven forfend!
  • That may or may not be true (Bibi Netanyahu duplicitous — heaven forfend!). The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
  • The likelihood of suffering from PTSD is cumulative, meaning that if PTSD could be measured so effectively, and thus forfended a soldier who spends a year and a half in Iraq but comes within a tenth of getting full-blown PTSD will still be 90% of the way to PTSD when they return a year later. On the Scene at the Iraq Hearings - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • If only she had had to play genuinely quietly, or without vibrato, or (heaven forfend) unbeautifully!
  • This is partly because the work's previous presentation in a Broadway house under the auspices of Cameron Mackintosh, known for blockbuster musicals, stirred up a somewhat antagonistic debate: Is this theater or, h eaven forfend, a ballet? Fair Feathered Friends
  • The question itself might seem vaguely offensive, but one has to wonder given the howls about Obama “apologizing for America” anytime he publicly intimates that any past foreign policy of the United States might have been mistaken — or, heaven forfend, even be the source of some degree of international animus against us. We Never Make Mistakes
  • You weren't looking for another mother -- heaven forfend, as Hub used to say. PROSPECT HILL
  • And if, heaven forfend, that other guy worms his way into office again, we're really going to have to work together to defend the beloved republic.
  • I’ll forfend from the typical look at all the vendors photograph, you’ve seen them before. Of Coups and Cowboy Hats; my Fall-IN! 2009 Travelogue « Third Point of Singularity
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