Definition for Prevention:

• The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.

Synonyms for Prevention:

• n.

  •
  • interruption,
  • frustration,
  • sabotage,
  • paralysis.
  •
  • allow.
  •act (noun)
  • bar,
  • prevention.
  •arrest (noun)
  • stayings,
  • re-straining,
  • restrainings,
  • de lay,
  • re straining,
  • de-lays,
  • de lays,
  • de-lay.
  •avoidance (noun)
  • absention,
  • nonparticipation,
  • steering clear of,
  • escapism,
  • eschewal,
  • runaround,
  • evasion,
  • forbearance,
  • elusions,
  • elusion.
  •dissuasion (noun)
  • intimidation,
  • disinclination,
  • discouragement,
  • disheartenment,
  • aversion,
  • derailment,
  • restraint,
  • diversion,
  • admonishment,
  • banishment,
  • deflection,
  • dissuasion.
  •exclusion (noun)
  • keeping out,
  • relegation,
  • relegations,
  • debarment,
  • Nonadmission,
  • veto,
  • lockout,
  • refusal,
  • lockouts,
  • coventry.
  •inhibition (noun)
  • selfconsciousness,
  • self-consciousnesses,
  • selfconsciousnesses,
  • re serve,
  • self consciousnesses,
  • self consciousness,
  • re-serve,
  • re-serves.
  •inoculation (noun)
  • inoculation.
  •opposition (noun)
  • counter-attacks,
  • Antinomy,
  • opposure,
  • negativism,
  • obstructiveness,
  • Oppugnancy,
  • unfriendliness,
  • Antinomies,
  • counter-attack,
  • duel.
  •prohibition (noun)
  • suppression,
  • injunction,
  • denial,
  • forbiddance,
  • constraint,
  • disapproval,
  • blockade,
  • ban,
  • restriction,
  • preclusion,
  • curtailment,
  • rejection,
  • Disallowance.
  •restraint (noun)
  • self-government,
  • self-discipline,
  • withholdings.
  •stoppage (noun)
  • foil,
  • obviating,
  • overriding,
  • drawing off,
  • keeping off.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • persuasion,
  • forestallment,
  • deterrence,
  • limitation,
  • determent,
  • obviation.
  •
  • counteraction,
  • vaccination.
  •
  • obstruction,
  • stoppage.
  •Other relevant words:
  • putting down,
  • statute,
  • deferral,
  • shy,
  • escape,
  • Sidetracking,
  • halting,
  • halt,
  • nonintervention,
  • stop,
  • Ceasing,
  • interference,
  • postponement,
  • shield,
  • law,
  • immunization,
  • impeding,
  • prejudice,
  • safeguard,
  • discontinuance,
  • surcease,
  • protection,
  • extinction,
  • cake,
  • Subduing,
  • hindering,
  • fool's paradise,
  • contraband,
  • streak,
  • Presurmise,
  • measure,
  • preconceived idea,
  • countermeasure,
  • presumption,
  • tabu,
  • Proscribing,
  • mitigation,
  • curb,
  • discontinuation,
  • Hampering,
  • prophylactic,
  • concealing,
  • end,
  • evasiveness,
  • Jink,
  • Preapprehension,
  • balking,
  • sumptuary laws,
  • Obstructing,
  • meter,
  • blockage,
  • termination,
  • balk,
  • embolism,
  • preventative,
  • shunning,
  • parsimony,
  • Counter-agent,
  • Discontinuing,
  • shot,
  • Prejudication,
  • impediment,
  • presentiment,
  • embargo,
  • Quashing,
  • Hinderance,
  • hindrance,
  • embarrassment,
  • arresting,
  • Debarring,
  • turn down,
  • check,
  • legal profession,
  • cracking down on,
  • Restraining,
  • presupposition,
  • hiding,
  • coarctation,
  • inoculant,
  • Retardment,
  • precaution,
  • baulk,
  • Checking,
  • PROHIBITORY INJUNCTION,
  • killing,
  • cessation,
  • block,
  • noninvolvement,
  • prophylaxis,
  • deterence,
  • Muffling,
  • Presupposal,
  • savings,
  • Delaying,
  • crack down,
  • concealment,
  • banning,
  • Arrestation,
  • withholding,
  • infarct,
  • thwarting,
  • repression,
  • quelling,
  • censoring,
  • stifling,
  • aborting,
  • Terminating,
  • forbidden fruit,
  • no-no,
  • barricade,
  • disease prevention,
  • Intercepting,
  • index librorum prohibitorum,
  • Interdicting,
  • obstacle,
  • taproom,
  • booster,
  • delay,
  • circumvention,
  • serum,
  • getting around,
  • neutrality,
  • put-down,
  • abortion,
  • deferment,
  • foreclosure,
  • inhibitor,
  • slowing,
  • Silencing,
  • counteractant,
  • frustrating,
  • Interclusion,
  • curbing,
  • defense mechanism,
  • Prenotion,
  • prejudgment,
  • forbidding,
  • zoning,
  • set back,
  • vaccine,
  • Retarding,
  • Preventing,
  • foregone conclusion,
  • smothering,
  • assumption,
  • slip,
  • gamma globulin,
  • impedance,
  • Refraining,
  • cut-off,
  • estoppel,
  • blocking,
  • anticipation,
  • zigzag,
  • embolus,
  • Forejudgment,
  • interdict,
  • barroom,
  • repressing,
  • control,
  • stopping,
  • preconception,
  • duck,
  • Muting,
  • foiling,
  • Oppilation,
  • Quieting,
  • Vetoing,
  • elusiveness,
  • enjoining,
  • inhibiting,
  • nixing,
  • equivocation,
  • ruling out,
  • staving off,
  • retardation,
  • warding off,
  • preventative medicine,
  • predilection,
  • stricture,
  • prenotice,
  • stay,
  • fixed idea,
  • preventive,
  • quenching,
  • Precluding,
  • save-all,
  • predisposition,
  • Index Expurgatorius,
  • evasive action,
  • forestalling,
  • Squelching,
  • fending off,
  • controlling,
  • elimination,
  • remedy,
  • interception,
  • closure,
  • legal community,
  • censorship,
  • interdiction,
  • avoidance,
  • Tabooing,
  • saloon,
  • baulking,
  • Mitigating,
  • Avoiding,
  • sidestep,
  • reprieve,
  • Impedition,
  • extinguishing,
  • antidote,
  • cutting off,
  • predetermination,
  • Suppressing,
  • avoiding reaction,
  • inoculum,
  • disqualification,
  • prepossession,
  • amount,
  • crushing,
  • ending,
  • Prohibiting,
  • dodge,
  • prevent,
  • taboo,
  • index,
  • barring.

Paraphrases for Prevention:

• Forward Entailment

  • Verb, past tense
    Preventing.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    conflict-prevention, hiv-prevention.
  • Proper noun, singular
    suppression.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    conflict-prevention, suppression.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    Preventing, preventable.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Preventing, countermeasures, initiatives, Measures, dangers, hazards, victims, members, MTS, preventative, protection, prohibition.
  • Noun, plural
    precautions, interventions, principles, Recommendations, responsibilities, Organizations, practices, representatives, projects, topics, Efforts, safeguards, Risks, warnings, partners, Resources, Persons, substances, Drugs, objectives, Rights, estimates, seniors, documents, approaches, Areas, Policies, Territories, Agencies, workers, Communities, groups, causes, aspects, results, data, Males, women, initiatives, Measures.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Preventing, interdiction, preparedness, protection, preventable, deterrence, prohibition.
  • Verb, past tense
    Deterred, Avoided, Cautioned, opened, Warned, blocked, suspended, Told, Denied, barred, kept, Had.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    protecting, hindering, Deterring, discouraging, Precluding, Anticipating, forestalling, thwarting, alerting, curbing, forbidding, Stemming, reducing, tackling, guarding, Notifying, helping, withholding, Addressing, Checking, Suspending, telling, barring, Reversing, Maintaining, setting, Preventing, focusing, dealing.
  • Verb, past participle
    stopped, improved, encouraged, Avoided, Precluded, Provided, Forestalled, restricted, thwarted, forbidden, withheld, developed, blocked, turned, Aimed, Denied, revised, Been, barred, Refused, designed, Submitted, Allowed, kept.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    prohibits, Comes, asks, Has, makes.
  • Verb, base form
    pre-empt.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    preventative.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    contraception, precaution, preventative.

Antonyms for Prevention:

• n.

  • stop
    continuation, go, help, clearance, start.
  • Other antonyms:
    promotion, cultivation, support, aid, facilitation, encouragement, assistance, backing, nurture, advancement.

Prevention Sentence Examples:

• The failure in this part of the reform of 1773 is not stated by your Committee as recommending a return to the ancient constitution of the Company, which was nearly as far as the new from containing any principle tending to the prevention or remedy of abuses, - but to point out the probable failure of any future regulations which do not apply directly to the grievance, but which may be taken up as experiments to ascertain theories of the operation of councils formed of greater or lesser numbers, or such as shall be composed of men of more or less opulence, or of interests of newer or longer standing, or concerning the distribution of power to various descriptions or professions of men, or of the election to office by one authority rather than another.

• I refer your Lordships to pages 2827, 2828, and 2829 of the printed Minutes, where you will find the system of his government to be formed upon a resolution not to use any one legal means of punishing corruption, or for the prevention of corruption; all that he desires is, to have an absolute arbitrary power over the servants of the Company.

Hypernym for Prevention:

• n.

  • act
    suppression, interception, averting, nonproliferation, prophylaxis, quelling, preclusion, crushing, non-proliferation, save, debarment, forestalling, stifling, obviation, disqualification.

Hyponym for Prevention:

• n.

  • act
    interference, hindrance, Hinderance.