Definitions of preclude

1. To shut out; hinder; stop; to keep from taking place; prevent.

2. To hinder by anticipation: to keep back: to prevent from taking place.

3. To prevent; foreclose.

4. To prevent by previous action.

5. make impossible, esp. beforehand

6. To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to, employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation.

7. To hinder from access or possession; to hinder; to shut out; to obviate.

8. To shut out; to hinder from access; to debar; to prevent from happening or taking place.

9. Preclusion.

10. Precludeness.

11. Precludely.