prevent
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
To keep something from happening or stop someone from doing something.
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Senses
Wordset Dictionary
stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
Wordset Dictionary
keep from happening or arising
Classifications
Cognitive
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Variants
- synonym
- forbidkeepnot take place
- pasttense
- prevented
- presentparticiple
- preventing
- thirdpersonsingular
- prevents
- pastparticiple
- prevented