- prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid - keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun preclusion1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- preclude, rule out, close out - make impossible, especially beforehand
--2 is one way to obviate, rid of, eliminate
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something