prevent
verbid
677·updated Jun 3, 2026verified
To keep something from happening or stop someone from doing something.
Attested in
No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.
Classifications
Cognitive
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- forbidkeepnot take place
- pasttense
- prevented
- presentparticiple
- preventing
- thirdpersonsingular
- prevents
- pastparticiple
- prevented
Framework definitions
- §1
- To keep something from happening or stop someone from doing something.
- §1
- To keep something from happening or stop someone from doing something.
- §1
- To keep something from happening or stop someone from doing something.
- §1
- To keep something from happening or stop someone from doing something.
- §1
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- §2
- keep from happening or arising
- §1 · legacy_primary
- To keep something from happening or stop someone from doing something.DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column
Outgoing relationships
- verbLevel
applylexicon:CognitiveLevel
Incoming relationships
No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.