0 present participle of preclude --
1 to prevent something or make it impossible, or prevent someone from doing something: --
The fact that your application was not successful this time does not preclude the possibility of you applying again next time.
His contract precludes him from discussing his work with anyone outside the company.
He is also not precluding the possibility that there is an answer to the question that he asks.
Specimens from the injection-site wound were only available for 50 % of case-patients, precluding laboratory evaluation for a possible aetiology.
A second limitation relates to differences in the study design of our two developmental age groups, precluding definitive developmental comparisons.
The remains were found commingled and highly fragmented, precluding an analysis on an individual-by-individual basis.
Cerebellar damage would cause problems in predicting and attending to the appropriate emotional cues in stimuli, precluding low-level imitative behaviors and proper social development.
Even during pregnancy, the fetal - placental - maternal unit is in constant interaction, thereby precluding that maternal influences are unidirectional.
This now beckons towards the more self-aware modernist theatre that the music at this point seems intent on precluding.
However, once dynamically bound, a variable's definition is fixed, precluding rebinding for marshalling or update.
