prevent
IPA: prɪvˈɛnt
verb
- (transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
- (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
- (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
- (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
- (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
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Examples of "prevent" in Sentences
- So the best way to prevent is to stop people from feeding them with bread, chips and other stuff.
- Unknown to them, they're not the first ones there, and the suicide they're trying to prevent is part of a game played by forces more powerful than they imagine.
- James Fellows: That a man who himself served in an ill-advised war should now lose a son to a war the father tried to prevent is almost too painful to contemplate.
- Seeing your country change around you in ways that neither you nor your elected representatives can prevent is frightening, especially if you are older, white, and conservative by nature.
- The short slogans repeated over and over again prevent everyone, including the politicians holding the town hall meetings, from being able to have a discission or express a complex view point.
- Just as a football game is not decided by how hard a team, that loses a game by 10 points, fought back at the end of the game when the other team was in prevent defense, the Democratic nomination is not decided on the basis of who was able to make up some ground by resorting to extremely negative campaign tactics.
- Good men are afraid of sin, and are in care to prevent it; and the most effectual way to prevent is to hide God's word in our hearts, that we may answer every temptation, as our Master did, with, It is written, may oppose God's precepts to the dominion of sin, his promises to its allurements, and his threatenings to its menaces.
- The NCVYS chief executive, Susanne Rauprich, said: By failing to take a comprehensive view of the cumulative impact that the cuts agenda places on young people, we are risking unintended consequences that could in the long term prevent a large number of young people, and in particular those that are already disadvantaged, from realising their true potential.
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