Definitionn. a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
Last update: December 5, 2016
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Take precaution before lightening crackers. [verb]
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This precaution is necessary because wheatgerm contains lectin, which can potentially cause red blood cells to clump. [noun]
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As a precaution I was kept in over night as I developed surgical emphysema, from the aspiration site. [noun]
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Though protected from any great danger of observation by the precipitous banks, and the thick shrubbery which skirted the stream, no precaution known to an Indian attack was neglected. [noun]
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Another longer and expressive silence was observed, and was broken, as before, with due precaution, by the same individual. [noun]
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The young man observed the precaution; and the scout, laying a board from the ruins to the canoe, made a sign for the two officers to enter. [noun]
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His companions complied, though to two of them the reasons of this extraordinary precaution were yet a mystery. [noun]
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"Our captors had the precaution to see us shod like themselves," said Duncan, raising a foot, and exhibiting the buckskin he wore. [noun]
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But the vigilance of the Indians rendered this act of precaution both difficult and dangerous. [noun]
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