Another Word For PREVENT
forestall
Verb : (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
Verb : (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
Verb : (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
preclude
Verb : (transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.
forbid
Verb : (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
Verb : (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
Verb : (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
keep
Verb : To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
Verb : To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
Verb : (transitive) To hold the status of something.
foreclose
Verb : (transitive, law) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on.
Verb : (transitive, law) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises.
Verb : (transitive, originally) To shut up or out; to prevent from doing something.
obviate
Verb : (transitive) To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required).
Verb : (transitive) To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).
prevention
Noun : The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
Noun : (medicine) Any measure intended to limit health-related risks (such as information campaigns, vaccination, early diagnosis etc.).
Noun : (obsolete) The act of going, or state of being, before.
preventive
Adjective : Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
Adjective : Carried out to deter military aggression.
Adjective : Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
avert
Verb : (transitive) To turn aside or away.
Verb : (transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
Verb : (intransitive, archaic) To turn away.
refrain
Verb : (transitive, archaic) To hold back, to restrain (someone or something).
Verb : (reflexive, archaic) To show restraint; to hold oneself back.
Verb : (transitive, now rare) To repress (a desire, emotion etc.); to check or curb.
exclude
Verb : (transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
Verb : (transitive) To expel; to put out.
Verb : (transitive) To omit from consideration.
debar
Verb : (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
Verb : (transitive) To hinder or prevent.
Verb : (US, law, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.
avoid
Verb : (transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun
Verb : (transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
Verb : to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from
repress
Verb : (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
Verb : (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
Verb : To press again.
avoidance
Noun : The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
Noun : (law, obsolete) The act of annulling; annulment.
Noun : (obsolete) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant, specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
eschew
Verb : (transitive, formal) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.
shun
Verb : (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently; ostracize.
Verb : (transitive) To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
Verb : (transitive) To screen, hide.
deter
Verb : (transitive) To prevent something from happening.
Verb : (transitive) To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.
Verb : (transitive) To distract someone from something.
inhibit
Verb : (transitive) To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
Verb : (Philippines) To recuse.
avoiding
Noun : Avoidance.
stop
Verb : (intransitive) To cease moving.
Verb : (intransitive) Not to continue.
Verb : (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
banning
Noun : The act by which something is banned; a prohibition.
Noun : A surname.
Noun : A city in Riverside County, California, United States.
resist
Verb : (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
Verb : (transitive) To withstand the actions of.
Verb : (intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.
prohibit
Verb : (transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
disqualify
Verb : (transitive) To make ineligible for something.
Verb : (transitive) To exclude from consideration by the explicit revocation of a previous qualification.
prohibition
Noun : An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
Noun : A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
Noun : A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
deprive
Verb : (transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
Verb : (transitive) To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
Verb : (transitive) To bereave.
nullify
Verb : (transitive, law) To make legally invalid.
Verb : To prevent from happening.
Verb : To make of no use or value; to cancel out.
estop
Verb : To impede or bar by estoppel.
Verb : To stop up, to plug
suppress
Verb : To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
Verb : To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
Verb : (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
blocking
Noun : The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
Noun : The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
Noun : Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
impede
Verb : (transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.
hinder
Verb : (transitive) To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.
Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.
Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To cause harm.
dissuade
Verb : (transitive) To convince not to try or do.
disallow
Verb : To refuse to allow
Verb : To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper
Verb : (UK, law, historical) to overrule a colonial legislation by the sovereign-in-privy council
impediment
Noun : A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress.
Noun : A disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech.
Noun : (chiefly in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.
hindrance
Noun : Something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.
Noun : The state or act of hindering something
thwart
Verb : (transitive) To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
Verb : (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.
deny
Verb : (transitive) To disallow or reject.
Verb : (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
Verb : (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
obstacle
Noun : Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress, either physically or figuratively
preventative
Adjective : Alternative form of preventive [Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.]
Noun : Alternative form of preventive [(dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.]
obstruct
Verb : To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See synonyms at block.
Verb : To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder.
Verb : To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.
restrain
Verb : (transitive) To control or keep in check.
Verb : (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
Verb : (transitive) To restrict or limit.
remove
Verb : (transitive) To delete.
Verb : (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
Verb : (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
undermine
Verb : To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to sap.
Verb : (figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
Verb : To erode the base or foundation of something, e.g. by the action of water.
evade
Verb : (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from
Verb : (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
Verb : (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
reduce
Verb : (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
Verb : (intransitive) To lose weight.
Verb : (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
eliminate
Verb : (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
Verb : (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
Verb : (transitive, intransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
circumvent
Verb : (transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass
Verb : (transitive) to surround or besiege
Verb : (transitive) to outwit or outsmart
escape
Verb : (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
Verb : (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
Verb : (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
defuse
Verb : (transitive) To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.).
Verb : (transitive, figurative) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
Verb : (obsolete) To disorder; to make shapeless.
interfere
Verb : (intransitive) To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
Verb : (intransitive, physics) (of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.
Verb : (mostly of horses) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
denying
Noun : The act of one who denies something; a denial.
minimize
Verb : (transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
Verb : (transitive) To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish.
Verb : (computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
divert
Verb : (transitive) To turn aside from a course.
Verb : (transitive) To distract.
Verb : (transitive) To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)
restrict
Verb : To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
Verb : (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
oppose
Verb : To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
Verb : To object to.
Verb : To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
distract
Verb : (transitive) To divert the attention of.
Verb : (transitive) To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction.
negate
Verb : To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
Verb : To nullify or cause to be ineffective.
Verb : To be negative; bring or cause negative results.
counteract
Verb : To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on
Verb : To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate
jeopardize
Verb : (US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
constrain
Verb : (transitive) To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressuring; to compel; to oblige.
Verb : (transitive) To keep within close bounds; to confine.
Verb : (transitive) To reduce a result in response to limited resources.
dodge
Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
Verb : (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
Verb : (archaic) To go hither and thither.
limit
Verb : (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
Verb : (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
Verb : (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
save
Verb : (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
Verb : To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
Verb : To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
fend
Verb : (intransitive) To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
Verb : (rare, except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off).
reverse
Verb : (transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
Verb : (transitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
Verb : (transitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
eradicate
Verb : (transitive) To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
Verb : (transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.
overcome
Verb : (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
Verb : (intransitive) To prevail.
Verb : (transitive) To recover from (a difficulty), to get over
defeat
Verb : (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
Verb : (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
Verb : (transitive) To nullify
discourage
Verb : (transitive) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
Verb : (transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something).
stand
Verb : To position or be positioned physically:
Verb : (intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
Verb : (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
fail
Verb : (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
Verb : (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
Verb : (transitive) To neglect.
curtail
Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal
Verb : (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
Verb : (transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
counter
Verb : To contradict, oppose.
Verb : (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
Verb : To take action in response to; to respond.
combating
Verb : Alternative spelling of combatting: present participle and gerund of combat
impair
Verb : (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
Verb : (intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
precautionary
Adjective : Of, pertaining to, or serving as a precaution.
Noun : (obsolete) A precaution.
frustrate
Verb : (transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
Verb : (transitive) To hinder or thwart.
Verb : (transitive) To cause stress or annoyance.
hold
Verb : (transitive) To grasp or grip.
Verb : (transitive) To contain or store.
Verb : (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
remedy
Verb : (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.
disrupt
Verb : (transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.
Verb : (transitive) To interrupt or impede.
Verb : (transitive) To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.
caution
Verb : (transitive) To warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.
Verb : (soccer) To give a yellow card
spare
Verb : To show mercy, to have mercy on.
Verb : (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
Verb : (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
beware
Verb : (defective, transitive, intransitive) To use caution, pay attention to (used both with and without of).
fight
Verb : Senses relating to physical conflict:
Verb : (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
Verb : (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
defend
Verb : (transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
Verb : (transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
Verb : (transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
ban
Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
Verb : (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
Verb : (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
control
Verb : (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
Verb : (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
Verb : (transitive, archaic) To verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account.
protect
Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
Verb : (travel, aviation) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.
alert
Verb : To give warning to.
contain
Verb : (transitive) To hold inside.
Verb : (transitive) To include as a part.
Verb : (transitive) To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
halt
Verb : (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
Verb : (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
Verb : (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
warning
Noun : The action of the verb warn; an instance of warning someone.
Noun : Something spoken or written that is intended to warn.
Noun : A surname.
banned
Adjective : Forbidden; not allowed.
warn
Verb : (transitive) To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:
Verb : (transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.
Verb : (transitive) To notify or inform (someone, about something).
allow
Verb : (ditransitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
Verb : (transitive, catenative) To enable; to permit; to grant license to; to consent to.
Verb : To not bar or obstruct.
combat
Verb : (transitive) To fight; to struggle against.
Verb : (intransitive) To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).
safeguard
Noun : Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.
Noun : One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection.
Noun : A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war.
not
Verb : Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
Verb : To no degree.
Verb : (litotes) Used to indicate the opposite or near opposite, often in a form of understatement.
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