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precludes

precludes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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!

Questions about precludes

What is precludes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Precludes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of preclude.

Words near precludes in the dictionary

  1. preclosing
  2. preclosure
  3. precludable
  4. preclude
  5. precluded
  6. precludes
  7. precluding
  8. preclusion
  9. preclusions
  10. preclusive
  11. preclusively

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Adapted from Wiktionary: precludes (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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