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prevention 音標拼音: [priv'ɛnʃən] n. 阻止,妨礙,預防 阻止,妨礙,預防 prevention預防 prevention n 1: the act of preventing; " there was no bar against leaving"; " money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" [ synonym: { prevention}, { bar}] Prevention \ Pre* ven" tion\, n. [ Cf. F. pr[' e] vention.] 1. The act of going, or state of being, before. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] The greater the distance, the greater the prevention. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought. [ Obs.] -- Hammond. Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Prejudice; prepossession. [ A Gallicism] -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 126 Moby Thesaurus words for " prevention": Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abortion, anticipation, arrest, arrestation, arresting, avoidance, avoiding, avoiding reaction, balk, balking, ban, banning, bar, barring, block, blocking, check, checking, circumvention, contraband, control, controlling, curb, curbing, debarment, debarring, defense mechanism, delay, delaying, denial, determent, deterrence, disallowance, discouragement, dodge, duck, elusion, elusiveness, embargo, enjoining, equivocation, escape, estoppel, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, exclusion, foiling, forbearance, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, foreclosure, forestalling, forestallment, frustrating, frustration, getting around, halt, halting, hampering, hindering, hindrance, impedance, impeding, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibiting, inhibition, injunction, intercepting, interception, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, interdictum, jink, law, mitigating, mitigation, neutrality, no- no, nonintervention, noninvolvement, obstructing, obstruction, obviation, preclusion, prohibiting, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscribing, proscription, refraining, refusal, rejection, repression, restraining, restraint, restrictive covenants, retardation, ruling out, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, slowing, statute, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, the runaround, thwarting, zigzag, zoning, zoning laws
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