Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Prevent.
5 letter answer(s) to prevent
AVERT
prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
turn away or aside; "They averted their eyes when the King entered"
WARD OFF
DEBAR
bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club"
prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
DETER
try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage this practice among our youth"
turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"
ESTOP
To impede or bar by estoppel.
3 letter answer(s) to prevent
BAR
(law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; "spectators were not allowed past the bar"
(meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter"
a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate"
a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar"
a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars"
a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave"
a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops
6 letter answer(s) to prevent
KIBOSH
put an end to; dispose of decisively.
"he put the kibosh on the deal"
7 letter answer(s) to prevent
RULEOUT
4 letter answer(s) to prevent
STOP
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes;
a brief stay in the course of a journey;
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
a restraint that checks the motion of something;
a spot where something halts or pauses;
an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
the act of stopping something;
the event of something ending;
the state of inactivity following an interruption;
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