Preclude
[prɪ'kluːd] or [prɪ'klud]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Prevent, hinder, debar, impede, restrain, prohibit, inhibit, stop, bar, shut out.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prevent, obviate, bar, debar, impede, hinder
ANT:Admit, promote, further, advance
Typist: Theodore
Definition
v.t. to shut out beforehand: to hinder by anticipation: to keep back: to prevent from taking place.—n. Preclū′sion act of precluding or hindering: state of being precluded.—adj. Preclū′sive tending to preclude: hindering beforehand.—adv. Preclū′sively.
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Examples
- The result was his perfection of a lamp that would furnish the miners with sufficient light and yet preclude risk of exploding fire-damp. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The fact that some implements are polished does not preclude the presence of great quantities of implements of unpolished stone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Calico printers are using half a pound of the acid to every 100 pounds of dressing starch, in order to entirely preclude the disagreeable odor arising after awhile from dry goods in store. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- My means were very limited--so limited as to preclude the possibility of constructing an apparatus of such mechanical finish as to warrant my success in venturing upon its public exhibition. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The hour at which I arrived in London precluded all hope of my finding Mr. Bruff at his place of business. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The carrying trade, though it deserves no preference, ought not to be precluded, but to be left free, like all other trades. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- An union of a different tendency, and precluding the possibility of the other, was soon to be formed in their family. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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