Crossword-Solution: PRECLUDE 8 letters, 41 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Preclude v. To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder;
to stop; to impede.
Preclude v. To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder
by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to,
employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation.

We have 41 clues for the answer “PRECLUDE”

Clue Answers
make impossible, especially beforehand 1 answer
Rule out in advance 1 answer
Render impossible 1 answer
Make it impossible for 1 answer
make impossible to happen 2 answers
SHUT out from enjoyment of 3 answers
Take advance action against 4 answers
Prevent from happening 4 answers
Musical opener 4 answers
MAKE impossible 7 answers
Estop 7 answers
foreclose 8 answers
Head off 16 answers
intercept 19 answers
Shut out 19 answers
Interdict 21 answers
Obviate 25 answers
Debar 31 answers
MAKE unwilling 31 answers
Forbid 34 answers
proscribe 36 answers
Omit 41 answers
avert 43 answers
Disallow 44 answers
rule out 47 answers
BLACK out 48 answers
Outlaw 49 answers
Prohibit 49 answers
Quell 49 answers
count out 50 answers
Veer 50 answers
Overpower 51 answers
Nullify 53 answers
Forestall 53 answers
Prevent 53 answers
Confiscate 54 answers
Deflect 54 answers
Discourage 55 answers
Choke 56 answers
Foil 57 answers
Bar 109 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with PRECLUDE (5)

Some of them were in irons, but for the most part they seemed sufficiently awed by the presence of their guards to preclude any possibility of attempted escape.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Even so, the magnitude of the problems and the slow pace in building new market-oriented institutions preclude a near-term recovery of output to the 1990 level.
The 1993 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
Lady Greystoke never rode alone at any great distance from the bungalow, and the savage loyalty of the ferocious Waziri warriors who formed a great part of Tarzan’s followers seemed to preclude the possibility of a successful attempt at forcible abduction, or of the bribery of the Waziri themselves.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995
Meanwhile I should be subjected to no discomfort that was not necessary to preclude escape, and, unless I forfeited the privilege by misconduct, I should be occasionally permitted to see my brother who had preceded me to my prison.
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994
The dangerously clear logic of the Negro's position will more and more loudly assert itself in that day when increasing wealth and more intricate social organization preclude the South from being, as it so largely is, simply an armed camp for intimidating black folk.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008

Quotes with PRECLUDE (3)

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
Flannery O'Connor
Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.
Jane Austen Emma
...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline.
Joseph Stalin
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 14 times in crossword archives (1977–2023).