The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word AVERT , but the solution may also be DETER which is one of the most recent solution (2017 in LA Times).
Prevent crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AVERT | 47 % | 5 |
| DETER | 25 % | 5 |
| BAR | 9 % | 3 |
| DEBAR | 7 % | 5 |
| ESTOP | 5 % | 5 |
| STOP | 1 % | 4 |
| FORESTALL | 1 % | 9 |
| FOIL | 1 % | 4 |
| RULEOUT | 1 % | 7 |
| PRECLUDE | 1 % | 8 |
| STAVEOFF | 1 % | 8 |
| OBVIATE | 1 % | 7 |
| BAN | 1 % | 3 |
| DENY | 1 % | 4 |
| WARDOFF | 1 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Prevent
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- forestall
- preclude
- forbid
- keep
- foreclose
- obviate
- prevention
- preventive
- avert
- refrain
- exclude
- debar
Crossword Answer definitions
AVERT verb- To turn aside or away.
- To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
- To turn away.
- To turn away.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result AVERT
More clues leading to the result DETER
More clues leading to the result BAR
- Kind of code
- Milky Way unit
- Prevent
- Refuse admission to
- Serving counter
- Soap unit
- Word in many ranch names
- Word with roll or salad
- Close off
- Exclude
More clues leading to the result DEBAR
More clues leading to the result ESTOP
- Bar, at the bar
- Bar, legally
- Prevent legally
- Prevent, in legalspeak
- Impede legally
- Legally bar
- Block legally
- Bar by writ
- Bar in court
- Finish, at the bar
More clues leading to the result STOP
- "__ the music!"
- Depot
- Halt
- Octagon message
- Organ piece
- Railroad-crossing word
- Scrub a mission
- Cease movement
- Discontinue
- Glottal __
More clues leading to the result FORESTALL
More clues leading to the result FOIL
- Dueler's weapon
- Light sword
- Thwart
- Straight man
- Candy wrapper
- Cover-up for leftovers
- It can cover your lunch
- Sword for a fencer
- It's a wrap
- Thwart the villain
More clues leading to the result RULEOUT
- Dismiss
- Remove from consideration
- Shut the door on
- Eliminate as a possibility
- Exclude by regulation.
- Eliminate
- Prevent
- Cross off as a possibility
- Dismiss from consideration
- Exclude from consideration
More clues leading to the result PRECLUDE
- Make impossible
- Rule out in advance
- Shut out
- Make impossible.
- Shut out.
- Prevent.
- Head off
- Render impossible
- Prevent from happening
More clues leading to the result STAVEOFF
More clues leading to the result OBVIATE
More clues leading to the result BAN
- Prohibit
- Prohibition
- Forbid
- Outlaw
- Proscribe
- Taboo
- Big soda ___ (failed Bloombergian initiative)
- -
- Disallow
- Uncompromising law
More clues leading to the result DENY
- Just say no
- Refuse to believe
- Say it isn't so
- Turn down
- Gainsay
- Refuse to accept
- Refute
- Reject as false
- Repudiate
- Say (it) isn't so