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6/30/15

Preclude

Preclude

<pre-clood>

stop; hinder; deter;

to prevent something from happening.

Wearing good shoes will preclude problems with your feet.

Memory trick:
preclude reminds of prevent

At work:
Good testing will preclude errors in our software.

(c) 2015 E. Carruthers


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