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prevent
[ pri-vent ]
verb (used with object)
- to keep from occurring; avert; hinder:
He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
Synonyms: , , , ,
Antonyms: ,
- to hinder or stop from doing something:
There is nothing to prevent us from going.
- Archaic. to act ahead of; forestall.
- Archaic. to precede.
- Archaic. to anticipate.
verb (used without object)
- to interpose a hindrance:
He will come if nothing prevents.
prevent
/ ɪˈɛԳ /
verb
- tr to keep from happening, esp by taking precautionary action
- troften foll byfrom to keep (someone from doing something); hinder; impede
- intr to interpose or act as a hindrance
- archaic.tr to anticipate or precede
Derived Forms
- ˈԳٲ, adjective
- ˌԳٲˈٲ, noun
- ˈԳٲ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·Գa· ·Գi· adjective
- ·Գa·t noun
- ·ԳiԲ· adverb
- non·Գa· adjective
- non·Գi· adjective
- ܲȴ-·ԳĻ adjective
- un·Գa· adjective
- ܲp·ԳĻ adjective
- un·Գi· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of prevent1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of prevent1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The experience of being outdoors and working with animals has already started to improve her social anxiety which prevented her from finding employment.
As life in Spain and Portugal stutters back to normal, the big questions are not just what went wrong but how to prevent such a full-scale power failure from happening again.
On Tuesday, the UN's human rights chief urged the world to "prevent the total collapse of critical life-saving support in Gaza".
It also alleges that the anti-DEI directives compromise the quality of the program by preventing it from effectively fulfilling the “diverse needs” of its families as dictated by the Head Start Act.
Funding cuts could merely hobble the lab’s staff and prevent the model from ever being advanced, or its operations could be shut down entirely, the responsibility perhaps passed on to another agency’s models.
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