prevent

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “I brush my teeth regularly to prevent tooth decay.”

2. fiil To take preventative measures.

   “I think you must be mad, and she shall not have a glimpse of it while I'm here to prevent!”

3. fiil To come before; to precede.

   “We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us.”

4. fiil To outdo, surpass.

   “With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed.”

5. fiil To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

   “their ready guilt preventing thy commands”