Word Finder - prevent

definition

To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).

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I brush my teeth regularly to prevent them from turning yellow.

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To take preventative measures.

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To come before; to precede.

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To outdo, surpass.

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To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

Nature found a way to prevent that.

More than likely the correction was to prevent her from being embarrassed.

If he was trying to prevent her from escaping, he was doing a poor job of it.

The Others want to prevent it.

But still they would whisper, and he could not prevent it.

If you had been with them you couldn't have done anything to prevent the accident.

I'm sorry to prevent you from seeing him, but I didn't know...

The connection alone might prevent a full-scale war.

A way to make Gabriel my mate and a way to prevent Darkyn from destroying everything.

It was pretty bad when the only way to prevent her father from interfering in her life was leaving the state.

The early December sun couldn't set fast enough to prevent her pounding headache from growing worse on her drive to work.

When the wine was passed to our neighbour, he was obliged to stand up to prevent her taking it away from him.

All she had to do was find a way to prevent them from crippling her logic for now.

A man was placed on guard at the door to prevent interruption.

The battle got so bad that the only way to prevent the annihilation of every being in the universe was to divide the physical and divine worlds.

She hid in the room most of the day to prevent any more run-ins with cats or models and to think.

Dusty looked around the gym, sensing it was beyond time for him to admit he couldn't prevent what was coming.

Unlike the regular military, the political elite's security private forces were made up of children from the upper class to prevent the elite class from becoming polluted by the poor.

It is only to prevent some Pugachev or other from killing my children and yours, and Arakcheev from sending me off to some Military Settlement.

I have to be there in order to prevent it, he said carefully.

Rostov took the joke as an insult, flared up, and said such unpleasant things to the officer that it was all Denisov could do to prevent a duel.

If her powers grow enough, she'll not only prevent us from stitching up the tear between realms, but she'll open the doorway between the two worlds.

She didn't believe for one minute he was going to find a way to prevent her from dying in three months.

If they pay the tax from a mistaken interest in the individual taxed, to save his property, or prevent his going to jail, it is because they have not considered wisely how far they let their private feelings interfere with the public good.

This simultaneous discussion of many topics did not prevent a clear understanding but on the contrary was the surest sign that they fully understood one another.

I replaced the bull last year to prevent inbreeding, but I've been pleased with the offspring.

She rolled away from him, not wanting to cry in front of him but unable to prevent the tears that were starting to form.

One placed a sleep patch on her ear to prevent her from waking and scooped her up while the other grabbed the last suitcase out of her bedroom.

I know I can't prevent your doing so, but if you have a spark of conscience...

In 1747, it was discovered that lemons prevent scurvy.

The men were forbidden to talk out loud, to smoke their pipes, or to strike a light, and they tried to prevent their horses neighing.

Only low brush could grow in so small a space... no trees to prevent a vehicle from plunging into the forested mountain ranges below and beyond.

Deidre, for what little this is worth, I apologize for not being good enough or smart enough or quick enough to prevent the inevitable.

He pointed to the wall far enough behind him to prevent her from butting in.

But to know what can and what cannot be executed is impossible, not only in the case of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in which millions participated, but even in the simplest event, for in either case millions of obstacles may arise to prevent its execution.

She had enough strength to control the demon; maybe she could prevent it from escaping to a new host.

I did nothing to encourage him and you did absolutely nothing to prevent it.

He would pollinate a wheat stalk, then cover it with a trash bag to prevent contamination by other plants.

If we were to be together at the full moon, do you think something would prevent her from killing me?

In February 1532 he protested against all acts concerning the church passed by the parliament which met in 1529, but this did not prevent the important proceedings which secured the complete submission of the church to the state later in the same year.

They had been concealed in a cellar to prevent their falling into the hands of the book-collecting princes of Pergamum, and were in a very dilapidated condition.

On the 25th of November Cromwell charged Manchester with "unwillingness to have the war prosecuted to a full victory"; which Manchester answered by accusing Cromwell of having used expressions against the nobility, the Scots and Presbyterianism; of desiring to fill the army of the Eastern Association with Independents to prevent any accommodation; and of having vowed if he met the king in battle he would as lief fire his pistol at him as at anybody else.

He intended fully to restrain within legal bounds the opposition which the excise on domestic spirits had provoked, but he made the serious mistake of not allowing sufficiently for the character of the backwoods population When legal resistance developed into insurrection, Gallatin did his best to retrieve his error and prevent open war.

While the coin is being moved the hanger D is held firmly by the forceps E to prevent the pan from being pushed sideways.

During these early years Bedford ruled France wisely and at first with success, but he could not prevent the mischief which Humphrey of Gloucester caused both at home and abroad.

To anyone who looks at the field of Borodino without thinking of how the battle was actually fought, this position, protected by the river Kolocha, presents itself as obvious for an army whose object was to prevent an enemy from advancing along the Smolensk road to Moscow.

If an air-tight receptacle is not available, a small percentage of powdered carbon is added to the zinc-dust, to prevent increase in the amount of oxide, which, if present in excess, tends to make the deposit dull.

Other problems connected with his family interests served to complicate the situation and eventually to prevent the successful consummation of many of his plans.

On the 31st of May 1647 Cromwell had ordered Cornet Joyce to prevent the king's removal by the parliament or the Scots from Holmby, and Joyce by his own authority and with the king's consent brought him to Newmarket to the headquarters of the army.

He returned on the 19th of April, and on the 23rd was sent to Oxfordshire to prevent a junction between Charles and Prince Rupert, in which he succeeded after some small engagements and the storming of Blechingdon House.