Preclude synonyms and antonyms

prĭ-klo͝od'

To keep (a person or thing) from doing something; impede:

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hinder (related)

To hinder is defined as to restrain or hold something back.

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To bar or hinder the progress of; obstruct or delay

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restrain (related)

To hold back or keep in check; control:

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To keep from happening; ward off; prevent

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To forbid, disallow, or proscribe; to make illegal or illicit.

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(Dated) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.

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To make unnecessary

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To fill or stop up:

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To stop using, doing, etc.; cease; give up

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To delay, hinder, or prevent (an event, for example) by taking action beforehand:

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To lock or bolt with a bar.

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To come to an end; stop:

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To keep (a person) from some right or privilege; exclude; bar

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To prevent from entering; keep out; bar:

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(Eccles.) To prohibit; forbid

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To close or block an opening.

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support (antonym)

To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

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allow (antonym)

To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

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permit (antonym)

To afford opportunity or possibility for:

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(Idiomatic) to prevent something from happening; to obviate or avert

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To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.

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To forbid is defined as to order that something not occur, or to prevent something from occurring.

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(Computing) To terminate a computer program.

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necessitate (related)

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infer (related)

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discourage (related)

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To bring a suit to prevent a mortgagor from redeeming (a property) by paying any outstanding debt.

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