Prevent

What do we mean by prevent?

To keep from happening; avert. intransitive verb

To keep (a person or thing) from doing something; impede. intransitive verb

To anticipate or counter in advance. intransitive verb

To come before; precede. intransitive verb

To present an obstacle. intransitive verb

To go before; be earlier than; anticipate; forestall.

To take previous measures against; hence, to frustrate; disappoint; evade; escape.

To hinder from action by the opposition of obstacles; impede; restrain; check; preclude: generally followed by from.

To keep from existing or occurring; render impossible.

Synonyms To preclude, bar, debar.

To come beforehand; come before others, or before the usual time.

To interpose a hindrance, especially an insurmountable obstacle; interpose an effectual check; hinder.

To come before the usual time. intransitive verb

To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. transitive verb

To be beforehand with; to anticipate. transitive verb

To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart. transitive verb

Keep from happening or arising; make impossible verb

Stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state verb

To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).

To take preventative measures.

To come before; to precede.

To outdo, surpass.

To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

Prevent; to stop something from happening Urban Dictionary

Has the same meaning as preventable, but used only when too stupid to know the proper suffix Urban Dictionary

A ficticious course in how to counter rape defense . Offered to rapists who keep getting beat by their selected victims . Urban Dictionary

A synonym of contraception. Urban Dictionary

Urinating ahead of time while your bladder is roughly 50% full or less to prevent inconvenience of having to do so at a later time with greater need. Urban Dictionary

Used mostly in YouTube Poops where a video may only be a few seconds long. Cut-off prevention is a way of adding a few seconds to a video in order to prevent the YouTube player from breaking and not playing a video in its entirety. Usually placed at the end of a video, cut-off prevention is a way of ensuring that the vie Urban Dictionary

VERB. Masturbating so as to prevent wet dreams and/or untimely hard ons. Urban Dictionary

A chain of events that prevents you from accomplishing anything important. Urban Dictionary

Nick Jonas: You know when you’re going to school and you’re carrying you backpack and your back starts to hurt? Just flip it around. I should invent that Kevin Jonas: THE PREGNANCY PREVENTER. Urban Dictionary

To leave behind friends/teammates in their moment of need in order to save yourself Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to prevent:
prevent, present, precent, provent, prevert, prevene.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word prevent:
happening, erosion, spreading, infection, flooding, occurring, falling, entering, trafficking, interference, harm, excessive, treat, confusion, hiv, relegation, damage, diseases, gaining, destruction, disease, violence, abuse, collapse, getting, reduce.

Words that rhyme with prevent:
present, content, event, accent, consent, advent, lament, augment, rent, supplement, intent, descent, represent, circumvent, dissent, extent, assent, resent, vent, bent, segment, tent, orient, dent, president, lent, indent, repent, cement, relent, ferment, scent, torment, ascent, meant, percent, stent, invent, cent, frequent, ent, discontent, sent, spent, went, kent, pent, malcontent, gent, underwent, convent, ident, reinvent, trent, occident, misrepresent, shent, brent, splent, dente, dement, vice president, ghent, blent, disorient, slent, fent, misspent, tashkent, sente, lente, drent, nonevent, gwent, wendt, sprent, unspent, underrepresent, in any event, zent, glent, acute accent, mente, circus tent, line of descent, letter of intent, outspent, portland cement, rubber cement, pup tent, overspent, grave accent, ground rent, broadbent, to that extent, wente, rack rent, to a lesser extent, economic rent, cent-.

Adjectives that are often used to describe prevent:
loss, timely, prudent.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective prevent:
contact, recurrence, landing, spread, breakdown, war, disease, accidents, loss, fires, formation, violence, damage, infection, deformity, water, relapse, contamination, complications, problems, use, air, illness, introduction, breaks, pain, fatigue, infections, moisture, confusion, cruelty, trial, anxiety, occurrence, blindness, rust, occurrences, isolation, dermatitis, pollution, cancer, erosion, diseases, flexion, oil, death, crime, ulcers, irritation, failure, entrance, investigators, pooling, injury, collection, injuries, rotation, dispersion, poisoning, destruction, panic, wear, mildew, fire, condensation, atrophy, competition, dust, errors, misuse, athlete, blood, disability, embolism, disorder, boredom, creation, leakage, participation, passage, production, discoloration, snow, none, ingress, fear, conflict, accumulation, poverty, abuse, rusting, initiation, dissemination, skin, doing, restoration, filth.

Consonant match to prevent:
provent, provant.

Words that sound like prevent:
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