Usually means: Make impossible beforehand; prevent occurrence.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. preclude: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. preclude: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preclude: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preclude: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preclude: Vocabulary.com
  6. Preclude, preclude: Wordnik
  7. preclude: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. preclude: Wiktionary
  9. preclude: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. preclude: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. preclude: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. preclude: Dictionary.com
  13. preclude: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. preclude: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Preclude: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. preclude: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. preclude: Rhymezone
  18. preclude: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. preclude: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. preclude: Free Dictionary
  21. preclude: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. preclude: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. preclude: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. preclude: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. preclude: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preclude: Idioms

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

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