Preventing and Release

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Release is an antonym for preventing in keep from happening or continuing topic.

Release verb - To set free (from a state of being held in check).

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Preventing is an antonym for release.

Nearby Words: released, releasing

The unprecedented controversy after the film's release, which helped to ruin Molly Ringwald's career in the late eighties, as well as preventing first-time director Horatio Phelps from making a film again.

Source: Film / Basket
It wouldn't be until many years (and many hours of trying to edit out the music due to copyright/licensing issues that were preventing Daria from getting released in the first place) later that Daria would get the DVD release it deserved.

Source: Screwed By The Network / Western Animation
He nearly falls to his death trying to press the manual shutdown button, but falls into a gas vent pipe, shutting down the reactor and preventing the release of radioactive gas by plugging the hole he fell into with his girth.

Source: Going Critical

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