Guarding vs Preventive - What's the difference?

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Guarding is a related term of preventive.

As a verb guarding

is .

As an adjective preventive is

guarding

English

Verb

(head)

preventive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.

Carried out to deter military aggression.

Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.

* Sir Thomas Browne

Physic is either curative or preventive .

(obsolete) Going before; preceding.

* Cudworth

Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.

Noun

(en noun)

(dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.

* 1856 , Henry William Herbert, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen

Dogs should be warmly but airily housed; heartily, but not heatingly, fed — old Indian meal, mixed with oatmeal, suppawn, is the best general food, with a small quantity of salt, which is a preventive against worms

(nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.

A contraceptive, especially a condom.

Alternative forms

* preventative

Usage notes

* Many speakers prefer to use preventive'' in adjective senses and ''preventative in noun senses.^{[http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.htmlpreventive]

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