Synonyms of prevent

1 Syllable

halt, stop, bar, block, cork, dam, balk, chill, cool, check, thwart, shunt, foil

2 Syllables

forfend, thwarted, debar, restrains, arrest, stymie, foiled, blocked, stymieing, retard, banning, hinder, blocking, estop, resist, defend, hamper, avert, stymied, forbad, shunting, shortstop, purging, deter, shunted, debars, avoid, parried, restrain, deters, parry, thwarting, obstruct, snooker, parrying, baffle, harding, repress, restrict, counter, forbid, parries, warded, warding, limit

3 Syllables

debarring, panoplied, obviated, defending, intermit, obviating, tongue-tie, averting, manacling, obviate, preclude, interdict, averted, embargoed, hampered, debarred, hampering, dissuading, frustrate, intercept, estopped, exclude, impede, deterred, dissuaded, forbade, discomfit, embargoing, interrupt, resisted, forestall, excluded, precluding, inhibit, estopping, excluding, dissuade, circumvent, frustrating, prohibit, precluded, snookered, counteract

4 Syllables

interdicting, prohibiting, disadvise, foreclose, foreclosed, counteracting, forestalled, disincline, circumvented, forestalling, depurate, busybodied, interfered, counteracted, foreclosing, intermitting, intercepted, circumventing, discomfiting, discomfited, interrupting, interdicted, vaccinate, intercepting, vaccinating, variolate

5 Syllables

illegalize, counterattacked, anticipate