precluded

The steep rocky shores have precluded the formation of terraces.

It follows that judgments are precluded and criticism is silenced.

As noise was precluded there was nothing left for her but this dumb show.

The cost of former editions ($14) precluded many from possessing it.

There was that in the personality and the vehemence of the man that precluded opposition.

She was a woman with a hobby, which precluded the thought of marriage.

Surely, it was very general and precluded only a return to Dornlitz.

We are not precluded, however, from saying how the beginning strikes us.

In its abundance there are no burdens to bear, in its fertility all want is for ever precluded.

He wished to get at that something, but was precluded by the motion.