preventable
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3.5
- adjective
- /prɪˈvɛntəbl/
:
evitable
- Overweight and obesity are the second leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States.
- preventable diseases
- vaccine-preventable diseases
- preventable deaths
And essentially, he nearly died from a fully preventable vitamin deficiency.
- And essentially, he nearly died from a fully preventable vitamin deficiency.
- These are reversible and preventable conditions.
- At a minimum, you'll be able to monitor the onset of any preventable or early detectable health conditions.
- The result was catastrophic and preventable.
- Huxley thought that with the right application of science and reason, we could solve problems like poverty or preventable illness.
- They died the earliest from accidents and preventable illnesses.
- I just wonder then why some other very preventable situations.
- We have made plenty of our own, but what a preventable and huge mistake this was.
Examples
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The American Institute for Cancer Research calls this common disease one of the most preventable cancers.
Academic text (2010) -
But this is now a kind of cancer that's pretty much preventable as long as it gets detected.
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It's one of the most preventable forms of cancer.
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But this one is preventable, right?
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Five million people die a year from preventable water disease.
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This is, you know, where children die from preventable diseases.
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And children, too, are dying of preventable causes.
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Almost all of these deaths are preventable, and almost all of them are preventable through a set of low cost and high yielding investments.
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As a result, deaths from preventable diseases are starting to decline in several sub-Saharan nations.
Academic text (2007) -
Many childhood illnesses are preventable by getting vaccinated on time.
Synonyms
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3.1
Something you can prevent by taking action
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Can be made to end
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Something you can stop by action such as medicine
Something you can avoid before it happens
Possible to prevent by taking action
Antonyms
How Preventable
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Morphology
Etymology
Preventable comes from the parts pre- meaning 'before' and vent meaning 'to come', the same root you see in event, which is something that 'comes'. So, if something is preventable, it can be stopped 'before it comes'.