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   preventive

   /prɪˈvɛntɪv/

   adjective

   • 1. designed to keep something undesirable such as illness or harm from occurring: "preventive medicine" Similar inhibitorypreventativedeterrentpre-emptiveobstructiveprecautionaryprotectiveprophylacticdisease-preventingprecautionarypreventativeprotective

   noun

   • 1. a medicine or other treatment designed to prevent disease or ill health: "quinine was used as a malaria preventive" Similar prophylacticprophylactic deviceprophylactic medicinepreventativepreventive drug

   Derivatives

   • 1. preventively adverb

   Scrabble Points: 18

   • P

     3

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

   • V

     4

   • E

     1

   • N

     1

   • T

     1

   • I

     1

   • V

     4

   • E

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