Prevention

Noun

 * 1)  The act of going, or state of being, before.
 * The greater the distance, the greater the prevention. --Bacon.
 * 1)  Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks ; hence, precaution; forethought.  --Hammond. Shak.
 * 2) The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action,  access, or approach; thwarting. --South.
 * Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention. --Shakespeare.

Verbs for Prevention
effect—; employ—; investigate—; —averts; —baffles; —blankets; —chokes; —cramps; —disconcerts; —disheartens; —dooms; — encounters; —hampers; —impedes; —nips; —stifles; —thwarts.

Thesaurus
Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abortion, anticipation, arrest, arrestation, arresting, avoidance, avoiding, avoiding reaction, balk, balking, ban, banning, bar, barring, block, blocking, check, checking, circumvention, contraband, control, controlling, curb, curbing, debarment, debarring, defense mechanism, delay, delaying, denial, determent, deterrence, disallowance, discouragement, dodge, duck, elusion, elusiveness, embargo, enjoining, equivocation, escape, estoppel, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, exclusion, foiling, forbearance, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, foreclosure, forestalling, forestallment, frustrating, frustration, getting around, halt, halting, hampering, hindering, hindrance, impedance, impeding, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibiting, inhibition, injunction, intercepting, interception, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, interdictum, jink, law, mitigating, mitigation, neutrality, no-no, nonintervention, noninvolvement, obstructing, obstruction, obviation, preclusion, prohibiting, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscribing, proscription, refraining, refusal, rejection, repression, restraining, restraint, restrictive covenants, retardation, ruling out, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, slowing, statute, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, the runaround, thwarting, zigzag, zoning, zoning laws

Etymology
Compare prévention

prevent + -tion

Translations

 * Serbo-Croatian: anticipacija


 * Finnish: ennaltaehkäisy, ennaltaehkäiseminen, ehkäisy, ehkäiseminen, torjunta, torjuminen


 * German:
 * Serbo-Croatian: prevencija, preveniranje, predupređivanje, predohrana


 * : Prävention
 * : prevenção


 * : నివారణ (nivaaraNa)
 * : prevención

Noun
prevention