preventive
- Adjective. Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
- Adjective. Carried out to deter military aggression.
- Adjective. Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
- Noun. (nonstandard) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
- Noun. (nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
- Noun. A contraceptive, especially a condom.
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