Preventing Synonyms and Antonyms
Keep from happening or arising; make impossible
(Verb)
Synonyms:
- precluding
- restraining
- arresting
- foiling
- obviating
- stopping
- frustrating
- forestalling
- blocking
- balking
- warding
- deterring
- barring
- interrupting
- repressing
- thwarting
- circumventing
- anticipating
- forbidding
- debarring
- warning
- hindering
- keeping
- vetoing
- suppressing
- intercepting
- stifling
- countering
- resisting
- halting
- averting
- limiting
- prohibiting
- preempting
- restricting
- inhibiting
- parrying
- paralyzing
- obstructing
- hampering
- guarding
- gagging
- impeding
- foreclosing
- forbearing
- overriding
- defending
- damming
- censoring
- counteracting
- binding
- retarding
- checking