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Made or done so as to deter an anticipated unpleasant situation
“Drivers rediscovered their horns, using them in short toots as a preventive measure to warn the occasional careless pedestrian.”
Designed to prevent or protect against illness or disease
“The drug is used as a preventive treatment for episodic and chronic migraine.”
Used or intended to avert or thwart danger or disaster
Pertaining to healing, or having healing properties
Tending, or designed, to hinder or deter
Giving warning
Designed to correct or counteract something harmful or undesirable
Acting to preserve or conserve something
A measure taken in advance to prevent something dangerous, unpleasant, or inconvenient from happening
“Administrators considered the measure a preventive against social unrest.”
A medicine or other treatment designed to prevent disease or ill health
“Hop Sing had told him how effective they could be as a preventive against disease.”
A thing that prevents or is intended to prevent someone from doing something
An antibody that is capable of neutralising specific toxins that are causative agents of disease
A medicine taken or given to counteract a particular poison or ailment
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