Verb
To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.
To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to, employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation.
Source: Webster's dictionaryDon't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. Andy Rooney
Relationships do not preclude issues of morality. Jhumpa Lahiri
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. William Falconer
The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time. Max Horkheimer
We cannot preclude the possibility that we are living through a political disruption that will in time bear comparison with the collapse of Communism a generation ago. Francis Fukuyama
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions. Milan Kundera