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a.
Tending to prevent.
n.
A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid.
a.
Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
a.
Not prevented or hindered; as, unprevented sorrows.
n.
A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power.
n.
The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
n.
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
n.
That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.
adv.
In a preventive manner.
n.
The quality or state of being preventable.
n.
Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice.
v. t.
To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill.
a.
Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease.
adv.
So as to prevent or hinder.
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Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.
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n.
One who prevents or obstructs; a hinderer; that which hinders; as, a preventer of evils or of disease.
n.
The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation.
n.
The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes.
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