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preventative

English

  1. 🔊 preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
    “preventive medicine”
  2. 🔊 tending to prevent or hinder
  3. 🔊 remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
    “the doctor recommended several preventatives”
  4. 🔊 an agent or device intended to prevent conception
  5. 🔊 any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

Similar words

contraceptive preventive contraceptive device prophylactic device birth control device hindrance hinderance hitch preventive encumbrance incumbrance interference preventive prophylactic preventive prophylactic preventive