preclude

• præclude (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin praecludo.

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈkluːd/, /pɹiːˈkluːd/

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• Rhymes: -uːd

preclude (third-person singular simple present precludes, present participle precluding, simple past and past participle precluded)

1. (transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.

   It has been raining for days, but that doesn’t preclude the possibility that the skies will clear by this afternoon!

   • 2013 August 9, Douglas Main, “Israel Outlaws Water Fluoridation”, in livescience‎, retrieved 2013-09-30:

     Israel's decision to ban fluoridation follows a vote to preclude the practice in Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan. It was also recently overturned in Hamilton, the fourth most populous city in New Zealand.

preclude

1. third-person singular present indicative of precludere