Obviate vs Preclude - What's the difference?
obviate | preclude |
To bypass a requirement or make it unnecessary; to avoid a future problem or difficult situation.
* 1826', Richard Reece, ''A Practical Dissertation on the Means of '''Obviating & Treating the Varieties of Costiveness ,
* 2004 , David J. Anderson, Agile Management for Software Engineering ,
* 2008 , William S. Kroger, Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis: In Medicine, Dentistry, and Psychology ,
Remove the possibility of; (l); prevent or exclude; to make (l).
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In transitive terms the difference between obviate and preclude
is that obviate is to bypass a requirement or make it unnecessary; to avoid a future problem or difficult situation while preclude is remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.obviate
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Verb
(obviat)- They saved enough money for their purchase and obviated the need to borrow.
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- A mild dose of a warm active aperient to obviate costiveness, or to produce two motions daily, is generally very beneficial.
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- Some change requests, rather than extend the scope, obviate some of the existing scope of a project.
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- Thus, to obviate resistance, the discussion should be relevant to the patient?s problems.
preclude
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(preclud)- It has been raining for days, but that doesn’t preclude the possibility that the skies will clear by this afternoon!
- Israel's decision to ban fluoridation follows a vote to preclude the practice in Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan. It was also recently overturned in Hamilton, the fourth most populous city in New Zealand.