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Preclude

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent. See Synonyms at prevent.

v. To exclude or prevent (someone) from a given condition or activity: Modesty precludes me from accepting the honor.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

v. To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to, employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To close; stop up; shut; prevent access to.

To shut out; hinder by excluding; prevent; impede.

To prevent by anticipative action; render in-effectual or unsuccessful; hinder the action of.

Synonyms To prevent, bar, debar, prohibit.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make impossible, especially beforehand

v. keep from happening or arising; make impossible

Word Usage

"And yet this device's size, weight and inability to make phone calls preclude it from replacing a smartphone."

Verb Form

precluded precludes precluding

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

obviate rid of eliminate

Hyponym

stop queer ward off stymy save

Form

precluded precluding precludable preclusively preclusive

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

hinder stop impede prevent

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Abood Jude Likud Mahmood Mahmoud