Preventing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PREVENTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• PREVENT, to keep from happening
• keep (something) from happening
• stop (someone) from doing something
• (of God) go before (someone) with spiritual guidance and help.

Words related to PREVENTING

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How to use PREVENTING in a sentence

• He may drive an iron bar through his cheeks and tongue, thus preventing all misuse of the gift of speech.
• If he were to kill me for preventing them, I would not let them meet.
• It seems that the sergeant of the guard has a right to shoot a military convict if there be no other possible means of preventing his escape.
• There has been no want, on our part, of invitations to neutral Powers to join with us in preventing or in arresting war.
• And the responsibility for an injury ought ever to be accompanied with the faculty of preventing it.
• Clements discovered that the door was not shut, and he closed it tight, preventing my hearing any more.
• But only for the fact that Bernard had followed the Indians closely, preventing them from scattering, all would have been massacreed.
• Knowing her furious temper, he had gone away with her, as the one means of preventing an application to the justices and a scandal in the neighborhood.
• More than anything else, of course, the Papal machine is concerned with education, or rather, with the preventing of education.
• Delicate business was given into his hands, that of preventing an alliance between France and Spain.
• OPPOSITION TO THE BILL FOR PREVENTING THE EXCESSIVE USE OF SPIRITS.
• Many, who thought themselves more pious than their neighbors, contended that, if Providence had ordained them to die of the small-pox, it was sinful to aim at preventing it.
• The Araucanians pursued them to the Biobio, fatigue preventing their following beyond that stream.
• Simply refusing to discuss the question is the only sure method of preventing its discussion.
• In classical mythology she was a nymph whom Juno punished by preventing her from speaking before others or from being silent after others had spoken.
• Nekhludoff felt that there was in her soul one who was his enemy and who was protecting her, such as she was now, and preventing him from getting at her heart.
• He let go the handle that they had pulled to raise the door, and it dropped shut, thus preventing any more oats from sliding down the chute.
• The president of the Gun Club passed his life in piercing holes, the captain in preventing him doing it.
• When I heard of this I went down and gave them orders to occupy Dalajican, thereby preventing the Spaniards from carrying out their intention to approach Cavite by that route.
• I made a pretty vigorous remonstrance, in very animated French, and it had the effect of preventing a repetition of the rudeness.
• Umbrellas appear to have been sometimes used in ritual for the purpose of preventing the sunlight from falling on sacred persons or things.
• One and a half miles from this brought us to a rocky ledge across the stream, preventing further progress in the boat, and marking the junction of the fresh and salt water.
• We shall find the proper method for preventing what we cannot stop when it has once begun.
• William Reid, of Chicago, throws light on the relative advantages of these and other methods of preventing creeping.
• While this was being done, news was brought that three Portuguese government vessels were cruising in the offing with the intention of preventing the expedition.

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