Crossword-Solution: PREVENTER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preventer | n. | One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another. |
| Preventer | n. | One who prevents or obstructs; a hinderer; that which hinders; as, a preventer of evils or of disease. |
| Preventer | n. | An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PREVENTER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Obviator | 1 answer |
| What Smokey wants you to be, re forest fires | 1 answer |
| person or thing that prevents | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PREVENTER (5)
William de Braose, who was not the author of the crime we have preferred passing over in silence, but the executioner, or, rather, not the preventer of its execution, while the murderous bands were fulfilling the orders they had received, was precipitated into a deep foss, and being taken by the enemy, was drawn forth, and only by a sudden effort of his own troops, and by divine mercy, escaped uninjured.
Preventer braces were reeved and hauled taut; tackles got upon the backstays; and each thing done to keep all snug and strong.
The strength of all hands soon brought the tack to the boom-end, and the sheet was trimmed down, and the preventer and the weather brace hauled taut to take off the strain.
For instance, in the months since we left Baltimore there had never been a moment, day or night, even when preventer tackles were rigged, that a man had not stood at the wheel.
There was an extra preventer on the double jib-sheet, but in spite of that the sheets broke and the jib was split with a fearful crack.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1989–2006).