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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prevention |
| Synonyms: | determent, disincentive, dissuasion, obviation, preclusion, preemption |
| Main Entry: | restraint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | limitation; something that holds |
| Synonyms: | abridgment, arrest, ban, bar, barrier, bondage, bridle, captivity, chains, check, command, confinement, constraint, cramp, curb, decrease, deprivation, detention, determent, deterrence, embargo, fetters, hindrance, impediment, imprisonment, instruction, interdict, limit, manacles, obstacle, obstruction, order, pinions, prohibition, reduction, rein, repression, restriction, rope, stop, stoppage, straitjacket, string, taboo, weight |
| Antonyms: | freedom, liberation |
| Main Entry: | determent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prevention |
| Synonyms: | deterrence, disincentive, dissuasion, obviation, preclusion, preemption |
| Main Entry: | obviation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prevention |
| Synonyms: | avoidance, blockage, deterence, determent, deterrence, forestalling, forestallment, halt, hindrance, impediment, inhibitor, interception, interruption, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, prohibition, stoppage, thwarting |
| Main Entry: | preclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prevention |
| Synonyms: | avoidance, blockage, deterence, determent, deterrence, forestalling, forestallment, halt, hindrance, impediment, inhibitor, interception, interruption, obstacle, obstruction, obviation, prohibition, stoppage, thwarting |
| Main Entry: | defense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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alleged, apagogic, apologetic, armed, armed at all points, armed cap, casemated, castellated, defended, defending, defensive, gas, iron, loopholed, machicolated, magnum, mural, panoplied, proof against, pump, slide, to the teeth
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| Concept: | Defense |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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-nouns
defense, protection, guard, ward; shielding; propugnation, preservation; guardianship., self-defense, self-preservation; resistance., safeguard (safety); balistraria; screen (shelter); (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling (enclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counterscarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos., buttress, abutment; shore (support)., breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin; vauntmure; advance work, horn work, outwork; barbacan, barbican; redoubt; fort-elage, fort-alice; lines., loophole, machicolation; sally port., hold, stronghold, fastness; asylum (refuge); keep, donjon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle; tower of strength, tower of strength; fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath; wooden walls., buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabasset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickethaube, vambrace, shako (dress) [more]., bearskin; panoply; truncheon (weapon)., garrison, picket, piquet; defender, protector; guardian (safety); bodyguard, champion; knight-errant, Paladin; propugner.
-verbs
defend, forfend, fend; shield, screen, shroud; engarrison; fend round (circumscribe); fence, intrench; guard (keep safe); guard against; take care of (vigilance); bear harmless; fend off, keep off, ward off, beat off; hinder., parry, repel, propugn, put to flight; give a warm reception to [ironical]; hold at bay, keep at bay, keep arm's length., stand on the defensive, act on the defensive; show fight; maintain one;s ground, stand one's ground; stand by; hold one's own; bear the brunt, stand the brunt; fall back upon, hold, stand in the gap.
-adjectives
defending; defensive; mural; armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth; panoplied; ironplated, ironclad; loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated; defendedv.; proof against., ballproof, bulletproof.
-adverbs
defensively; on the defense, on the defensive; in defense; at bay, pro aris et focis.
-phrases
defense not defiance; Dieu defend le droit; fidei defensor.
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| Antonyms: | attack |
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| Concept: | Restraint. |
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-nouns
restraint; hindrance; coercion (compulsion); cohibition, constraint, repression; discipline, control., confinement; durance, duress; imprisonment; incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity; blockade., arrest, arrestation; custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency., curb (means of restraint); lettres de cachet., limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly; prohibition., prisoner; repressionist.
-verbs
restrain, check; put under restraint, lay under restraint; enthral(l), inthral(l), bethral(l); restrict; debar (hinder); constrain; coerce (compel); curb, control; hold back, hold from, hold in, hold in check, hold within bounds, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep within bounds; hold in leash, hold in leading strings; withhold., keep under; repress, suppress; smother; pull in, rein in; hold, hold fast; keep a tight hand on; prohibit; inhibit, cohibit., enchain; fasten (join); fetter, shackle; entrammel; bridle, muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters., confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes., arrest; take up, take charge of, take into custody; take prisoner, take captive, make prisoner, make captive; captivate; lead captive, lead into captivity; send to prison, commit to prison; commit; give in charge, give in custody; subjugate.
-adjectives
restrained, constrained; imprisoned; pent up; jammed in, wedged in; under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches; in swaddling clothes; on parole; in custody (prisoner); cohibitive; coactive (compulsory)., stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound., ice bound, wind bound, weather bound; "cabined cribbed confined" [Macbeth]; in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.
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| Antonyms: | liberation |
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