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præclude

præclude is the obsolete spelling of preclude.

Meaning of preclude

Verb

preclude (third-person singular simple present precludes, present participle precluding, simple past and past participle precluded)

  1. (transitive) To remove the possibility of; to rule out; to prevent or exclude; to render impossible.
    • It has been raining for days, but that doesn’t preclude the skies clearing by this afternoon!

Forms of præclude

third-person singular presentpræcludes
present participlepræcluding
past participlepræcluded
pastpræcluded

Questions about præclude

What is præclude the obsolete spelling of?
Præclude is the obsolete spelling of preclude.

Words near præclude in the dictionary

  1. præcipitated
  2. præcipitates
  3. præcipitating
  4. præcise
  5. præcisely
  6. præclude
  7. præcluded
  8. præcludes
  9. præcluding
  10. præcordia
  11. præcordial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præclude (page history and authors); preclude (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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