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Preclude

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove the possibility of; to rule out; to prevent or exclude; to render impossible. transitive

    "It has been raining for days, but that doesn’t preclude the skies clearing by this afternoon!"

  2. 2
    keep from happening or arising; make impossible wordnet
  3. 3
    make impossible, especially beforehand wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin praeclūdere.

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