Prevent - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 02/03/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Prevent.

5 letter answer(s) to prevent

AVERT
  1. prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
  2. turn away or aside; "They averted their eyes when the King entered"
  3. WARD OFF
DEBAR
  1. bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
  2. prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club"
  3. prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
DETER
  1. try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage this practice among our youth"
  2. turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"
ESTOP
  1. To impede or bar by estoppel.

3 letter answer(s) to prevent

BAR
  1. (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"
  2. (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"
  3. a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate"
  4. a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar"
  5. a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars"
  6. a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
  7. 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"
  8. 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
  1. 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
  1. (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes;
  2. a brief stay in the course of a journey;
  3. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;
  4. a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;
  5. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
  6. a restraint that checks the motion of something;
  7. a spot where something halts or pauses;
  8. an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
  9. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
  10. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
  11. the act of stopping something;
  12. the event of something ending;
  13. the state of inactivity following an interruption;

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Prevent'

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"All ___!" (captain's cry
"Avast!"
"Cheers" setting
"Cut it out!"
"Cut that out!"
"Drugs kill" bar
"Enough!"
"Enough, you're killing m
"Freeze!"
"Halt!"
"Hold everything!"
"I don't want to hear any
"Knock it off!"
"No more!"
"Public house"
"Quit it!"
"That's enough!"
"Uncle!"
*Sign ... organ ... teleg
A full one should give you a capital start
An American period
Animals eating dirt ultimately put off
Axle, e.g.
Baked bread hamper
Ban
Bar
Bar at the bar
Bar in court
Bar legally
Bar raising large sum of money
Bar refuses to provide bottles
Bar, at the bar
Bar, by law
Bar, in law
Block
Block in path, so bikers turned back
Block legally
Block of rubbish under potassium and iodine
Block series of TGVs to Paris
Blockage in colon, say
Blow a high note: put in valve
Break
Break pots?
Bring back bags of money in end
Call it a day
Cause to halt
Cautious advice
Cease
Cease and desist
Cease sports training over problems at outset
Cease work below street
Check
Check temperature inside animal
Cleaner to hearten lady? Quite the opposite
Clog (up)
Close street: work is to follow
Cocktail lounge
Come to a halt
Come to an end
Common setting for a joke
Conclude a minimal amount of settlement's best
Conclude corporations must be on the rise
Conclusion sometimes drawn by an organist
Condescend to remove an old feature of organ
Cop's cry
Crosspiece
Cry after the sound of a
Cry from a tickled person
Declare time to head off
Deflect
Depot
Desist
Desist from temper tantrum right away
Detour
Direction at many a corne
Discontinue
Discourage
Discourage careful eater, initially itching to quit
Discourage careful eater, second to quit
Discourage fellow taking daughter for piano
Discourage from acting
Discourage, put off
Dismiss the possibility of rugby stars attending do
Dissuade
Does taking time prevent...
Don't go on
Drinker's place
Drinking-place
Drunk topes in bar
Eliminate
End sinks after rising
End street work
End with jars upside down
End with successful snooker shots brought up
European trophies over bar
Europeans on vacation head for bar
Except
Exclude
Exclude - bread
Exclude as a possibility
Exclude being served by rude baristas
Exclude, prohibit
Exclude; counter
Excluding a measure of pressure
Fend off
Finish second best
Finish stone work
Forestall
Forfend
Freeze
Frighten off
Grill's partner
Halt
Halt and bend forward having lost some oxygen?
Head off
Head off alien, green head off!
Head off as an animal doctor, crossing river
Head off state torture's introduction
High jump equipment
High jump need
High-jump need
High-jumper's hurdle
Hinder
Hinder, legally
Hold off
How to go from capitals of Spain, Russia, Qatar and Peru.
Howl - American singer flipped over note
Impede
Impede legally
Ingot
Inhibit
Intersection sign
Intimidate
Intimidate crime writer, blowing kiss
It can be soap, chocolate or coffee
It can precede the starts
It may be sandy or candy
It's jumped in a high jum
It's moved in limbo
Jet set romps regularly in bar
Judging by their names, w
Keep (from)
Keep from happening
Keep off a green
Keep out
Keep out of steep enclosure for entry to barbican
Kind of exam
Kind of graph
King cutting an old soldier's head off
Knock beers back near the rear of the Lawyer's Bar
Knock off
Lawyer's hurdle
Lawyers exclude brasserie staff
Lawyers without cover missing conclusion of case
Leave off
Legal profession
Legal profession's drinking den
Legally prevent
Lie to, in nautical lingo
Limbo requisite
Local block
Local restriction
Manhattan's place
Market order
Mars or Milky Way
Metro map feature
Mixologist's workplace
Morse writer denied vote is put off
Music unit
Nonplus
Nonsense
Obey a red light
Obstacle
Only just exclude place with a cathedral
Organ knob
Organ part
Organ piece
Pack it in jars to be sent back
Pack up trophies in retirement
Parry
Period of time eating milk-soaked bread? On the contrary
Pit, bus or full
Place for a cold one
Place for a gimlet or scr
Place for many belts
Place selling drinks in Prohibition
Place to get a screwdrive
Plug terminals of users straight into desktop
Poet scratching his bottom in pub
Point endlessly made in pub
Point on a bus map
Preclude
Pressure unit; shoal
Prevent a former soldier keeping rifle, at first
Prevent a Green appearing in Strasbourg?
Prevent beaver trashing boxes
Prevent Bill's daughter leaving
Prevent bread going bad
Prevent containers turning over
Prevent crime writer dropping The Times
Prevent date tree getting chopped
Prevent from acting
Prevent from happening
Prevent gent leaving cleaning fluid
Prevent legally
Prevent post getting broken
Prevent promotion being undated
Prevent scriptures turning up, in a strange sense
Prevent second murder
Prevent state heading for totalitarianism
Prevent through intimidat
Prevent, as disaster
Prevent, legally
Prohibit
Pub
Pub room; sandbank
Pull over
Pull the plug on
Pull up
Put a damper on
Put an end to bookish loony dropping round
Put off
Put off by cleaning product, chap leaves
Put off by film featuring bloody revolutionary? Just the opposite
Put off detective writer, but not getting cross
Put off for ever
Put off, discourage
Put paid to king, moving bishop not pawn
Quash
Quit
R&A plot to overturn ban
Rail in pub
Rare site during Prohibit
Red light directive
Red, to a motorist
Reef
Refrain
Reject bad route going round centre of Hull
Respond to seeing red?
Restrain through intimida
Rule out
Sailor upset royal court …
Saloon
Sandbank; prohibit
Save British Gas!
Save the Dog and Duck, for example?
Scare off
Second best stall
Secure watering hole
See red?
Seeker of reduced fare, not one to get put off
Setting for many a joke
Setting for many jokes
Setting of many jokes
Short cutting remark in pub
Shut out
Sign on the corner
Slot machine symbol
Sot's spot
Special offer giving no extra income for pub
Squelch
State time to head off
Station
Stave off
Stop child wiping bottom on bunk
Stop cleaner hiding man
Stop, perhaps
Stopper of things
Stopper, informally
Street sign
Successfully prevent
Support
Suspend
Take off Somerset's first spinner
Tavern
Telegram punctuation
Tender place?
Tender spot?
Terminate Sierra, Romeo, Quebec, Papa?
Three Musketeers unit
Thwart
Thwart in court
Ticklee's cry
Time inside does maybe discourage
Tollbooth part
Train station
Turn aside
Turn aside to maintain temperature
Turn away
Turn away 50% of travellers in distress
Turn away from state capital of Texas
Turn away if vicar gyrates in centre of Bath
Unwelcome end, with "the"
Valve in vessels raised angle
Ward off
Watering hole
What a high jumper jumps
What red means
What snooker player does the wrong way round in bar
Where Orvieto can be foun
Where spirits are located
Where to board a bus
Where to see a round of s
With the exception of
Word before "You're killi
Word defined by 17-, 25-,
Word in an octagon
Word with toll or roll
Writing in a box
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