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preventable

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pre·vent  (pr-vnt)
v. pre·vent·ed, pre·vent·ing, pre·vents
v.tr.
1. To keep from happening: took steps to prevent the strike.
2. To keep (someone) from doing something; impede: prevented us from winning.
3. Archaic To anticipate or counter in advance.
4. Archaic To come before; precede.
v.intr.
To present an obstacle: There will be a picnic if nothing prevents.

[Middle English preventen, to anticipate, from Latin praevenre, praevent- : prae-, pre- + venre, to come; see gw- in Indo-European roots.]

pre·venta·bili·ty, pre·venti·bili·ty n.
pre·venta·ble, pre·venti·ble adj.
pre·venter n.
Synonyms: prevent, preclude, avert, obviate, forestall
These verbs mean to stop or hinder something from happening, especially by advance planning or action. Prevent implies anticipatory counteraction: "The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it" (John Randolph).
To preclude is to exclude the possibility of an event or action: "a tranquillity which . . . his wife's presence would have precluded" (John Henry Newman).
To avert is to ward off something about to happen: The pilot's quick thinking averted an accident.
Obviate implies that something, such as a difficulty, has been anticipated and disposed of effectively: "the objections . . . having . . . been obviated in the preceding chapter" (Joseph Butler).
Forestall usually suggests anticipatory measures taken to counteract, neutralize, or nullify the effects of something: We installed an alarm system to forestall break-ins.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.preventable - capable of being prevented; "conscious of preventable human suffering"- A.L.Guerard
unpreventable - not preventable; "unpreventable hysteria"
Translations
preventable [prɪˈventəbl] ADJevitable
preventable [prɪˈvɛntəbəl] adjévitable
preventable
adjvermeidbar, verhütbar
preventable [prɪˈvɛntəbl] adjche può essere prevenuto/a, evitabile


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--To go on to another item--one of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption; and one of the consequences of civic administration by ignorant and vicious politicians, is that preventable diseases kill off half our population.
 
 
 
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