Preventative is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PREVENTATIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something intended to prevent
• That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
• an agent or device intended to prevent conception
• a medicine or other treatment designed to stop disease or ill health from occurring.
ADJECTIVE:
• acting to prevent, also PREVENTIVE
• tending to prevent or hinder
• preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
• acting to prevent
• designed to keep something undesirable such as illness, harm, or accidents from occurring.

Words related to PREVENTATIVE

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Words that contain PREVENTATIVE

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How to use PREVENTATIVE in a sentence

• Keep it perfectly dry by wiping it with clean cloths till not the least damp remains, and sprinkle over powdered ginger or pepper, as a preventative against the fly.
• Modern medicine has, however, discovered an effective preventative for this disease in the typhoid prophylactic, which renders the person immune from typhoid fever.
• The treatment consists in injecting into the arm a preventative serum.
• From here we were to take tea in the boiler to certain regiments, tea with wine in it as preventative against cholera.
• Coral was a preventative against witchcraft, hence the fashion of ladies and children wearing necklaces and bracelets of this material.
• Pieces of consecrated bread carried home and preserved is a preventative against the bite of a mad dog.
• The third, the so-called antiscorbutic vitamine because of its action as preventative and cure for scurvy, is found in certain fruits and vegetables.

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