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Word entry · 10 letters

prevention

Best crossword clue

"Keeping from happening"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /pɹɪˈvɛnʃən/Part of speech nounSorted eeinnoprtvStarts with PEnds with N1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of preventing

Word origin

From Middle English prevencion, from Medieval Latin prēventiō.

Used in a sentence

  • a fire prevention campaign
  • Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.
  • But no Man Pities another for any Evil lying upon Him, which he would not help, but which he could not. One is his Burden, the other his Choice; Vertually at least, since he might have Chosen its Prevention.

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