Prevent and Preclude

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Prevent

Prevent verb - To keep from happening by taking action in advance.

Usage example: a lot of problems would have been prevented if we'd just prepared better

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Preclude is a synonym for prevent in hinder topic. In some cases you can use "Preclude" instead a verb "Prevent", when it comes to topics like allow, obstruction, stop, inhibit. popular alternative

Nearby Words: prevention, preventive, preventing, preventable, preventer

Preclude

Preclude verb - To keep from happening by taking action in advance.

Usage example: issued a strict schedule for doing household chores so as to preclude any arguments

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Prevent is a synonym for preclude in inhibit topic. You can use "Prevent" instead a verb "Preclude", if it concerns topics such as allow, obstruction, hinder, deter. popular alternative

Nearby Words: preclusion, precluding

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Common collocations

people	prevent people	preclude people
someone	prevent someone	preclude someone
sort	prevent sort	preclude sort
return	prevent return	preclude return
Other words: time, use, characters, escape, damage, confusion, ship, existence.

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