Synonyms of the word

obviate

• v. (transitive) To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary…
• v. (transitive) To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).

avert

• v. (transitive) To turn aside or away.
• v. (transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To turn away.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To turn away.

avoid

• v. (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
• v. (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
• v. (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

debar

• v. (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
• v. (US, law, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection…

deflect

• v. (transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path.
• v. (intransitive) To deviate from its original path.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To divert (attention, etc.).

eliminate

• v. (transitive) To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
• v. (slang) To kill (a person or animal).
• v. (physiology) To excrete (waste products).
• v. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
• v. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

forbid

• v. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
• v. (transitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
• v. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.

foreclose

• v. (transitive) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments;…
• v. (transitive) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged…
• v. (transitive) To prevent from doing something.
• v. (transitive) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

forestall

• v. (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to…
• v. (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
• v. (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly…
• v. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
• v. To deprive (with of).
• v. (Britain, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the…
• n. (obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
• n. Something situated or placed in front.

preclude

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

prevent

• v. (transitive) To stop; to keep from.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.