| preventive | an agent or device intended to prevent conception |
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| preventive | any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome |
| preventive | remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease |
| preventive | preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease |
| preventive | tending to prevent or hinder |
| preventive | tending to ward off |
| preventive | the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease |