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Verb preclude has 2 senses
- prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid - keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- preclude, rule out, close out - make impossible, especially beforehand
--2 is one way to obviate, rid of, eliminate
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
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