Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to prevent
Participle: prevented
Gerund: preventing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | prevent |
| you | prevent |
| he;she;it | prevents |
| we | prevent |
| you | prevent |
| they | prevent |
Perfect
| I | have prevented |
| you | have prevented |
| he;she;it | has prevented |
| we | have prevented |
| you | have prevented |
| they | have prevented |
Past
| I | prevented |
| you | prevented |
| he;she;it | prevented |
| we | prevented |
| you | prevented |
| they | prevented |
Pluperfect
| I | had prevented |
| you | had prevented |
| he;she;it | had prevented |
| we | had prevented |
| you | had prevented |
| they | had prevented |
Future
| I | will prevent |
| you | will prevent |
| he;she;it | will prevent |
| we | will prevent |
| you | will prevent |
| they | will prevent |
Future Perfect
| I | will have prevented |
| you | will have prevented |
| he;she;it | will have prevented |
| we | will have prevented |
| you | will have prevented |
| they | will have prevented |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | prevent |
| you | prevent |
| he;she;it | prevent |
| we | prevent |
| you | prevent |
| they | prevent |
Perfect
| I | have prevented |
| you | have prevented |
| he;she;it | have prevented |
| we | have prevented |
| you | have prevented |
| they | have prevented |
Imperfect
| I | prevented |
| you | prevented |
| he;she;it | prevented |
| we | prevented |
| you | prevented |
| they | prevented |
Pluperfect
| I | had prevented |
| you | had prevented |
| he;she;it | had prevented |
| we | had prevented |
| you | had prevented |
| they | had prevented |
Conditional
Present
| I | would prevent |
| you | would prevent |
| he;she;it | would prevent |
| we | would prevent |
| you | would prevent |
| they | would prevent |
Perfect
| I | would have prevented |
| you | would have prevented |
| he;she;it | would have prevented |
| we | would have prevented |
| you | would have prevented |
| they | would have prevented |
Imperative
| you | prevent |
| we | Let's prevent |
| you | prevent |
Verbs conjugated like 'prevent'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'prevent'
prævent,
present,
prevene,
prevet,
brevet,
event,
peent,
precept,
preen,
preheat,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle
- behedge, forestay, forslow, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hinder, hold up, impede, incommode, obstruct, overslaugh, prevene, restrict, retard, slow down, stay, thwart, thwarten, umbeset, undermine
- stop
- avert, forestall, block, anticipate, prohibit, hamper, check, hinder
Antonyms
- to encourage or persuade into action; to bring about a reaction
- demotivate, discourage, halt, stop, incite
- stop
- start, initiate, open, proceed
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1432, "to act in anticipation of," from L.
præventus, pp. of
prævenire "come before, anticipate, hinder," in L.L. also "to prevent," from
præ "before" +
venire "to come" (see venue). Originally literal; sense of "anticipate to hinder" was in L., but not recorded in Eng. until 1560.
Preventive in the medical sense is recorded from 1646.
2. From Middle English preventen (“anticipate”), from Latin praeventus, perfect passive participle of praeveniō (“to anticipate”), from prae (“before”) + veniō (“to come”).
Verbs referencing "prevent"
Esperanto
preventi.
Sample Sentences
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Mrs. Shelby now rose, and said her engagements would prevent her being at the breakfast-table that morning; and, deputing a very respectable mulatto woman to attend to the gentlemen's coffee at the side-board, she left the room.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Before I left New York I made arrangements for securing a passage home in the George Washington packet ship, which was advertised to sail in June: that being the month in which I had determined, if prevented by no accident in the course of my ramblings, to leave America.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] procession repaired to a certain appointed place, where, as the printed programme set forth, it would be received by the children of the different free schools, ‘ singing Temperance Songs. ’ I was prevented from getting there, in time to hear these Little Warblers, or to report upon this novel kind of vocal entertainment: novel, at least, to me: but I found in a large open space, each society gathered [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] ‘I have a great respect for the chair, ’ quoth North Carolina, ‘I have a great respect for the chair as an officer of the house, and a great respect for him personally; nothing but that respect prevents me from rushing to the table and tearing that petition which has just been presented for the abolition of slavery in the district of Columbia, to pieces.’—‘I warn the abolitionists, ’ says South [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] habitual drunkard. His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one. But a deep, underlying spirit of cautiousness prevented his often yielding to appetite in such measure as to lose control of himself.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Cassy's air and manner, address, and evident command of money, prevented any rising disposition to suspicion in the hotel. People never inquire too closely into those who are fair on the main point, of paying well,—a thing which Cassy had foreseen when she provided [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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prevent exactly one thing: Another start of the Eurofighters and the state visit of the Kazakh president relating thereto.
(Operation White Christmas)