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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He believed that war was the greatest of preventible evils, and that no war which had occurred in his lifetime had been justified by the laws of right and wrong.
From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine
They prevailed in every encounter, but their advance was very slow, and their troops suffered many preventible hardships.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.
During this week, while all seemed going so well, one of the endless unhappy and preventible things happened.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
It is perfectly certain that all diseases without exception are preventible, or if not so, that they can be so weakened as to do no harm.
From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Besant, Walter, Sir
What appeals to me most is the purely unmilitary prospect of being able to protect the men, to some extent, from the, I'm sure, largely preventible sickness there has been in the P.G.
From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Palmer, Robert Stafford Arthur
