prevention (n.)

• abortion
• anticipation
• arrest
• avoidance
• balk
• ban
• banning
• bar
• barring
• block
• blocking
• check
• circumvention
• contraband
• control
• curb
• curbing
• debarment
• delay
• denial
• determent
• deterrence
• discouragement
• dodge
• duck
• elusion
• elusiveness
• embargo
• enjoining
• equivocation
• escape
• estoppel
• evasion
• evasiveness
• exclusion
• foiling
• forbearance
• forbiddance
• forbidding
• foreclosure
• forestalling
• frustration
• halt
• hindrance
• impedance
• index
• inhibition
• injunction
• interception
• interdict
• interdiction
• law
• mitigation
• neutrality
• nonintervention
• obstruction
• obviation
• preclusion
• prohibition
• proscription
• refusal
• rejection
• repression
• restraint
• retardation
• shunning
• shy
• sidestep
• slip
• slowing
• statute
• stay
• stop
• stoppage
• stopping
• suppression
• taboo
• thwarting
• zigzag
• zoning