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- deterrent,
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- ethnocentric,
- exceptional,
- excluding,
- exclusive,
- exclusory,
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- forestalling,
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- seclusive,
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- select,
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- separative,
- snobbish,
- suppressive,
- xenophobic
- suppressive
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- tending to suppress; "the government used suppressive measures to control the protest" related words >
- absolute,
- absolutist,
- absolutistic,
- arbitrary,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- autocratic,
- bossy,
- choking,
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- contrary,
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- imperial,
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- in the way,
- inhibiting,
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- interdictive,
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- prohibitive
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- tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive" related words >
- abusive,
- criminal,
- cutthroat,
- dear,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- discouraging,
- ethnocentric,
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- exceptional,
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- excluding,
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- exorbitant,
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- extravagant,
- fancy,
- forbidding,
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- high,
- immoderate,
- inadmissible,
- inflationary,
- inhibitive,
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- inordinate,
- insular,
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- interdictive,
- interdictory,
- narrow,
- out of bounds,
- out of sight,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- overpriced,
- parochial,
- preclusive,
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- prescriptive,
- preventative,
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- prohibiting,
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- proscriptive,
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- seclusive,
- segregative,
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- selective,
- separative,
- skyrocketing,
- snobbish,
- spiraling,
- suppressive,
- unconscionable,
- undue,
- unreasonable,
- unwarranted,
- usurious,
- xenophobic
- absolute,
- absolutist,
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- arbitrary,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- autocratic,
- bossy,
- brutal,
- choking,
- constraining,
- constrictive,
- contrary,
- counterproductive,
- crosswise,
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- domineering,
- exclusive,
- feudal,
- forbidding,
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- high-handed,
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- inhibiting,
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- interdictive,
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- interrupting,
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- lordly,
- magisterial,
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- restraining,
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- severe,
- stifling,
- strangling,
- strict,
- stultifying,
- suppressive,
- totalitarian,
- troublesome,
- tyrannical,
- tyrannous
- Olympian,
- abhorrent,
- abominable,
- aloof,
- awful,
- backward,
- bad,
- base,
- bashful,
- beastly,
- below contempt,
- beneath contempt,
- blank,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- constrained,
- contemptible,
- cool,
- crude,
- dangerous,
- despicable,
- detached,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- detestable,
- discouraging,
- discreet,
- disgusting,
- distant,
- dreadful,
- exclusive,
- execrable,
- expressionless,
- fetid,
- forestalling,
- foul,
- frightful,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- fulsome,
- ghastly,
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- gross,
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- guarded,
- harsh,
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- heinous,
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- horrible,
- horrid,
- hostile,
- icy,
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- impassive,
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- introverted,
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- malodorous,
- menacing,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmic,
- modest,
- nasty,
- nauseating,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- objectionable,
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- obscene,
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- offensive,
- offish,
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- preclusive,
- preventative,
- preventive,
- prohibiting,
- prohibitive,
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- prophylactic,
- proscriptive,
- rebarbative,
- remote,
- removed,
- repellent,
- repelling,
- repressed,
- repressive,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- revolting,
- shrinking,
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- standoff,
- standoffish,
- stern,
- stinking,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- suppressive,
- terrible,
- threatening,
- ugly,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unexpansive,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unpleasant,
- vile,
- withdrawn
- prevention
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- the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" related words >
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- Prohibition Party,
- Volstead Act,
- abortion,
- anticipation,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arresting,
- avoidance,
- avoiding,
- avoiding reaction,
- balk,
- balking,
- ban,
- banning,
- bar,
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- block,
- blocking,
- check,
- checking,
- circumvention,
- contraband,
- control,
- controlling,
- curb,
- curbing,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- defense mechanism,
- delay,
- delaying,
- denial,
- determent,
- deterrence,
- disallowance,
- discouragement,
- dodge,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- embargo,
- enjoining,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- estoppel,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- exclusion,
- foiling,
- forbearance,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- foreclosure,
- forestalling,
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- frustrating,
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- getting around,
- halt,
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- impedance,
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- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- inhibiting,
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- intercepting,
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- jink,
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- mitigating,
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- neutrality,
- no-no,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- obstructing,
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- obviation,
- preclusion,
- prohibiting,
- prohibition,
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- refraining,
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- stopping,
- sumptuary laws,
- suppression,
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- the runaround,
- thwarting,
- zigzag,
- zoning,
- zoning laws
- exclusive
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- a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"
- excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority; "exclusive clubs"; "an exclusive restaurants and shops"
- not divided or shared with others; "they have exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication" related words >
- Olympian,
- a certain,
- absolute,
- aloof,
- an,
- any,
- any one,
- apart from,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
- article,
- atomic,
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- chic,
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- clannish,
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- modish,
- monadic,
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- narrow,
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- not counting,
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- snooty,
- snotty,
- sole,
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- spot news,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- story,
- stylish,
- supercilious,
- suppressive,
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- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- trendy,
- unanalyzable,
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- undistracted,
- undivided,
- uniform,
- unique,
- unitary,
- unshared,
- unswerving,
- whole,
- with-it,
- withdrawn,
- withering,
- xenophobic
- preventive
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- remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease; "the doctor recommended several preventatives"
- preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease; "preventive medicine"; "vaccines are prophylactic"; "a prophylactic drug"
- tending to prevent or hinder related words >
- aegis,
- antacid,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- antidote,
- arm guard,
- backstop,
- barrier,
- block,
- buffer,
- bulwark,
- bumper,
- contraceptive,
- copyright,
- counteractant,
- counteractive,
- counteragent,
- counterirritant,
- countermeasure,
- covering,
- crash helmet,
- curb,
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- custodial,
- dashboard,
- defensive,
- deterrent,
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- discouraging,
- dodger,
- ethnocentric,
- exceptional,
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- face mask,
- fender,
- finger guard,
- foot guard,
- forbidding,
- forestalling,
- fostering,
- fuse,
- goggles,
- governor,
- guard,
- guardian,
- guarding,
- guardrail,
- hampering,
- hand guard,
- handrail,
- hard hat,
- helmet,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- immunizing,
- impediment,
- impeding,
- inadmissible,
- inhibiting,
- inhibition,
- inhibitive,
- inhibitory,
- inoculant,
- inoculum,
- insular,
- insulation,
- interdictive,
- interdictory,
- interlock,
- knee guard,
- knuckle guard,
- laminated glass,
- life preserver,
- lifeline,
- lightning conductor,
- lightning rod,
- mask,
- mudguard,
- narrow,
- neutralizer,
- nose guard,
- nullifier,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- offset,
- pad,
- padding,
- palladium,
- parental,
- parochial,
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- prophylactic,
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- protecting,
- protection,
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- protective clothing,
- protective umbrella,
- remedy,
- repressive,
- restraining,
- restrictive,
- safeguard,
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- safety,
- safety glass,
- safety plug,
- safety rail,
- safety shoes,
- safety switch,
- safety valve,
- screen,
- screening,
- seat belt,
- seclusive,
- segregative,
- select,
- selective,
- separative,
- serum,
- sheltering,
- shield,
- shielding,
- shin guard,
- snobbish,
- sun helmet,
- suppressive,
- tutelary,
- umbrella,
- vaccine,
- vigilant,
- watchful,
- windscreen,
- windshield,
- xenophobic
- suppression
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- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
- the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper"
- (botany) the failure to develop of some part or organ of a plant related words >
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- Prohibition Party,
- Volstead Act,
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- aloofness,
- annihilation,
- annulment,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- backwardness,
- bamboo curtain,
- ban,
- barrier of secrecy,
- bashfulness,
- blackout,
- blankness,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bottling up,
- breaking,
- ceasing,
- censoring,
- censorship,
- cessation,
- check,
- checking,
- chilliness,
- choking,
- choking off,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- coldness,
- concealing,
- concealment,
- conquering,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- contraband,
- control,
- controlling,
- conversion,
- coolness,
- corking up,
- crackdown,
- cramp,
- crushing,
- curtain,
- defense mechanism,
- delay,
- denial,
- deracination,
- detachment,
- detainment,
- detention,
- disallowance,
- discontinuation,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- distance,
- domestication,
- elimination,
- embargo,
- end,
- ending,
- eradication,
- exclusion,
- expressionlessness,
- extermination,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- extirpation,
- fixation,
- foot-dragging,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- gentling,
- guardedness,
- halt,
- halting,
- hampering,
- hiding,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holding,
- holding in,
- holdup,
- humbling,
- humiliation,
- hush-up,
- iciness,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impediment,
- impersonality,
- inaccessibility,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- interdicting,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- interference,
- interruption,
- introversion,
- iron curtain,
- ironbound security,
- keeping,
- law,
- let,
- liquidation,
- locking in,
- maintenance,
- mental block,
- modesty,
- negation,
- negativism,
- no-no,
- nuisance value,
- nullification,
- oath of secrecy,
- obstructing,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- official secrecy,
- opposition,
- pall,
- precluding,
- preclusion,
- prehension,
- preservation,
- prevention,
- prohibiting,
- prohibition,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proscription,
- psychological block,
- purge,
- put-down,
- putting down,
- quashing,
- quelling,
- quenching,
- quieting,
- reduction,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- remoteness,
- repression,
- reserve,
- reservedness,
- resistance,
- restraining,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- restrictive covenants,
- retainment,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retention,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- reticence,
- reticency,
- retirement,
- rooting out,
- ruling out,
- seal of secrecy,
- security,
- setback,
- silencing,
- smashing,
- smothering,
- snuffing out,
- squashing,
- squeeze,
- squelching,
- standoffishness,
- statute,
- stifling,
- stop,
- stopping,
- stranglehold,
- strangling,
- strangulation,
- stricture,
- subdual,
- subduedness,
- subduing,
- sublimation,
- suffocating,
- suffocation,
- sumptuary laws,
- surcease,
- symbolization,
- taboo,
- taming,
- tenacity,
- terminating,
- termination,
- throttling,
- treading down,
- unaffability,
- unapproachability,
- uncongeniality,
- undemonstrativeness,
- unexpansiveness,
- uprooting,
- veil,
- veil of secrecy,
- voiding,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawnness,
- withholding,
- wraps,
- zoning,
- zoning laws
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