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 preventative   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 预防的, 防止的

n. 预防法, 预防措施, 预防物, 预防药




    preventative
    [ noun ]
    1. remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease

    2. <noun.artifact>
      the doctor recommended several preventatives
    3. any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

    4. <noun.artifact>
    5. an agent or device intended to prevent conception

    6. <noun.artifact>
    [ adj ]
    1. tending to prevent or hinder

    2. <adj.all>
    3. preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease

    4. <adj.all>
      preventive medicine
      vaccines are prophylactic
      a prophylactic drug


    Preventative \Pre*vent"a*tive\, n.
    That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of
    preventive.

    1. In what may have been intended as a preventative measure, the East Berlin secret police force invited activists from several pro-democracy groups for a tour of their headquarters and talks with security officials.
    2. "It facilitates injury rehabilitation, and some of the players feel it's also preventative at times," says team spokesman Dave Freed. "It helps to keep them loose and limber." Practitioners also are making their way into the malls.
    3. Extra radiation treatments then given were preventative, he added.
    4. "People now buy the drinks before they get tired, as a kind of preventative action," Fujimoto said.
    5. "We are taking preventative action against the possibility of a major price movement," a London exchange official says.
    6. Urban also said there had been an unspecified number of "preventative detentions."
    7. Federal health officials call the $50 million program an unprecedented preventative effort that could prolong thousands of lives, The Atlanta Constitution and The New York Times reported today.
    8. This study, of 3,120 women and 10,226 men who came to the Cooper Clinic in Dallas for preventative health exams, extends that observation to physical fitness itself.
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