preclude

English

Alternative forms

• præclude (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praecludo.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈkluːd/, /pɹiːˈkluːd/

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• Rhymes: -uːd

Verb

preclude (third-person singular simple present precludes, present participle precluding, simple past and past participle precluded)

1. (transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.

   It has been raining for days, but that doesn’t preclude the possibility that the skies will clear by this afternoon!

   • 2013 August 9, Douglas Main, “Israel Outlaws Water Fluoridation”, in livescience‎^[1], retrieved 2013-09-30:

     Israel's decision to ban fluoridation follows a vote to preclude the practice in Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan. It was also recently overturned in Hamilton, the fourth most populous city in New Zealand.

   • 2020 June 17, David Clough, “Then and now: trains through Crewe”, in Rail, page 61:

     All the overnight trains were composed of Mk 1 vehicles that had vacuum brakes. This precluded the use of new Class 87s, which only had train air braking equipment, [...].

Related terms

• preclusion

Derived terms

• precludable
• preclusive

Translations

rule out

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 排除 (paai⁴ ceoi⁴), 杜絕 (dou⁶ zyut⁶), 防止 (fong⁴ zi²)

  Mandarin: 排除 (zh) (páichú), 杜絕 (zh) (dùjué), 防止 (zh) (fángzhǐ)

• Czech: vyloučit (cs) pf, zabránit (cs) pf, zamezit pf, znemožnit (cs) pf
• Danish: udelukke, umuliggøre
• Dutch: uitsluiten (nl), precluderen
• Esperanto: malebligi, bloki, bari (eo)
• Finnish: sulkea pois
• French: exclure (fr)
• Georgian: გამორიცხავს (gamoricxavs)
• German: ausschließen (de), verhindern (de), unmöglich machen
• Greek: αποκλείω (el) (apokleío)

• Hungarian: kizár (hu)
• Italian: precludere (it)
• Latin: praeclūdō
• Polish: wykluczyć (pl), wykluczać (pl)
• Portuguese: excluir (pt)
• Russian: предотвращать (ru) impf (predotvraščatʹ), устранять (ru) impf (ustranjatʹ), исключать (ru) impf (isključatʹ), мешать (ru) impf (mešatʹ), препятствовать (ru) impf (prepjatstvovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: isključiti (sh)
• Slovak: znemožniť, vylúčiť, zamedziť, zabrániť, predísť
• Spanish: descartar (es), excluir (es), precluir (law)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

preclude

1. third-person singular present indicative of precludere