Prevent and Stall

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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Stall and prevent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stall" instead a verb "Prevent".

Stall verb - To bring (something) to a standstill.

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Prevent and stall are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Prevent" instead a verb "Stall".

Nearby Words: stalled, stalling, stallion, stallholder

parents	prevent parents	stall parents
team	prevent team	stall team
army	prevent army	stall army
end	prevent end	stall end
Other words: death, destruction, time, game, bad, collapse, invasion, father, opponent, player, enemy, attacks, players, enemies, heroes.

Exodia decks come in two flavors: one which aims to draw out the entire Deck in one turn, turning the game into solitaire, and one which aims to stall and prevent the opponent from doing anything to damage them while they slowly draw out their instant win, which is about as annoying as it sounds.

Source: The Scrappy / Other Media
The stall limiter does just that: Helps prevent the player from putting an aircraft into a stall.

Source: Video Game / Aces High
In X5 there's Dynamo, a bounty hunter who is hired to stall the heroes as they try to prevent the Eurasia Colony from falling onto Earth.

Source: Recurring Boss

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