Word Meanings - PRECLUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede. The valves preclude the blood from entering the veins. E. Darwin. 2. To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication;

Additional info about word: PRECLUDE

1. To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede. The valves preclude the blood from entering the veins. E. Darwin. 2. 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. This much will obviate and preclude the objections. Bentley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRECLUDE)

• Debar
• Exclude
• stop
• thwart
• obstruct
• hinder
• prevent
• deter
• deprive
• disqualify
• deny
• prohibit
• preclude
• Shut
• Close
• contract
• confine
• bar
• fasten

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRECLUDE)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon

Related words: (words related to PRECLUDE)

• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• DEBARB
  To deprive of the beard. Bailey.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• CANCEL
  To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate;
• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• DEBARMENT
  Hindrance from approach; exclusion.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• DEBARRASS
  To disembarrass; to relieve.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• OBSTRUCTIVE
  Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. -- Ob*struct"ive*ly, adv.
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.
• INDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.