prevent
verb (used with object)
to keep from occurring; avert; hinder.
preventible
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a word derived from
prevent.
Example Sentences
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On this dark, tempestuous night, be the cause what it may, preventible or otherwise, the Ganges drifted helplessly to her fate.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor
I have made a monstrous fire, but thirst and impatience are hard to bear, and preventible misfortunes are always irksome.
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
We must and shall revolt against the evil lot, which preventible ignorance, ill health, and poverty bring on hundreds of thousands of children.
From Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy
The world is full of preventible evils which most men would be glad to see prevented.
From Political Ideals by Bertrand Russell
This preventible destruction is going on to-day, and it has been permitted to go on for ages, without a whisper of information regarding its cause being vouchsafed to the suffering sentient world.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
