1. Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
   - debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, fend off, avoid, ward off

Derived forms: staving off, staves off

Type of: forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent

• self-complacent
• self-conceit
• self-conceited
• self-conceitedly
• self-concern
• self-condemnation
• self-confessed
• self-confidence
• self-confident
• self-confidently
• self-congratulation
• self-congratulatory
• self-conscious
• self-consciously
• self-consciousness
• self-consistent
• self-constituted
• self-contained
• self-contemplation
• self-contempt
• self-contradiction
• self-contradictory
• self-control
• self-controlled
• self-criticism