Crossword-Solution: PREVENTATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preventative | n. | That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “PREVENTATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| acting to prevent | 1 answer |
| NATURAL immunity | 2 answers |
| contraceptive | 4 answers |
| prophylactic | 16 answers |
| Pharmaceutical | 24 answers |
| safeguarding | 36 answers |
| medical | 38 answers |
| antiseptic | 43 answers |
| Healing __ | 44 answers |
| segregate | 58 answers |
| Sequester | 65 answers |
| Segment | 68 answers |
| Veil | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PREVENTATIVE (5)
Something goes a little wrong and they jack up the prices." The National Transportation Safety Board said it would also institute a series of preventative maintenance steps on other airplanes' computer systems to insure that such a global failure is never repeated.
The only reason for its continuance is the still more cruel notion that the greater the terror punishment spreads, the more certain its preventative effect.
They realize that "nakedness has a hygienic value as well as a spiritual significance, far beyond its influences in allaying the natural inquisitiveness of the young or acting as a preventative of morbid emotion.
Now there never had been much cordiality between the squire and Dr Fillgrave, though Mr Gresham had consented to take a preventative pill from his hands, and the little man therefore swelled himself out somewhat more than ordinarily as he followed the servant.
You are rather inclined to be fat, you have naturally a good stomach, and you eat at the best tables; which must of course make you plethoric: and upon my word you will be very subject to these accidents, if you will not, from time to time, when you find yourself full, heated, or your head aching, take some little, easy, preventative purge, that would not confine you; such as chewing a little rhubarb when you go to bed at night; or some senna tea in the morning.
Quotes with PREVENTATIVE (3)
It was easier to ignore the consideration of paternal genes then than it would be now. We did not then consider ourselves held in the genetic trap. We thought each infant was born pure and new and holy: a gold baby, a luminous lamb. We did not know that certain forms of breast cancer were programmed and almost ineluctable, and we would not have believed you if you had told us that in our lifetime young women would be subjecting themselves to preventative mastectomies.
Surrounding the two of them was the love they shared but also an overwhelming feeling of fear--fear of a future filled with the emptiness which would consume them if they remained apart. A fear of a future of being separated forever, and it gripped both of their hearts, demanding preventative action.
Does biblical psychology, then, merely ask us to value good things a little less? Does the Bible seek a reduction of guilt by an overall deflation of the currency of moral ideals, so we can live more comfortably with an uneasy conscience? That would exaggerate a valid point. Although the Bible holds that no finite relationship is of infinite value, it does not embrace an extreme ascetic view that the source of happiness lies essentially in the reduction of desire. Some asceti…