preventing

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Definition

verb. keep from happening or arising; to hold or keep back

Example Sentence

The court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly.

Synonyms

hinder; forbid; avert; frustrate; prohibit; stop

Antonyms

allow; permit; let

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Rhymes

  • denting
  • renting
  • tenting
  • venting
  • behning
  • bening
  • benning
  • brenning
  • buening
  • denning
  • drenning
  • henning
  • jenning
  • kenning
  • lenning
  • menning
  • penning
  • pfenning
  • venning
  • wenning

  • cementing
  • consenting
  • dissenting
  • fermenting
  • inventing
  • lamenting
  • presenting
  • preventing
  • relenting
  • resenting
  • clendenning
  • consenting
  • dissenting
  • preventing
  • resenting

  • circumventing
  • reinventing
  • representing
  • supplementing
  • unrelenting
  • representing

  • misrepresenting
  • misrepresenting