Social life
Synonyms for prevent
The synonym for prevent recorded in this bank is keep, in the sense "stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for prevent
- keepverb, in the sense "stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day prevent is audited in a second meaning.
stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
We must prevent the cancer from spreading.
The true synonym
keep
Same sentence, swapped: We must keep the cancer from spreading.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- foreclose
- produce
- limit
Where prevent turns up in the game
prevent is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where prevent is the trap
- limitverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is bound, in the sense "place limits on (extent or amount or access)", so prevent is there to be ruled out.
- permitverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is let, in the sense "make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen", so prevent is there to be ruled out.
Play prevent
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so prevent reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other social life words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. prevent carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.