Scrabble?! PREVENTIVE

Definitions of PREVENTIVE in various dictionaries:

noun - remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease

noun - any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

noun - an agent or device intended to prevent conception

adj - preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease

adj - tending to prevent or hinder

Intended or used to prevent or hinder; acting as an obstacle: preventive measures.

Carried out to deter expected aggression by hostile forces.

Preventing or slowing the course of an illness or a disease; prophylactic: preventive medicine; preventive health care.

Something that prevents; an obstacle.

Something that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease.