Prevent and Think up

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Prevent

Prevent verb - To keep from happening by taking action in advance.
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Think up is an antonym for prevent.
Nearby Words: prevention, preventive, preventing, preventable, preventer

Think up

Think up verb - To create or think of by clever use of the imagination.
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Prevent is an antonym for think up in topics: create, bring about.
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  • He can't retool the previous plan to prevent the hero's method from working again; rather, he has to think up some new and creative way to bother the hero.
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