Prevent, anticipate, forestall mean to deal with beforehand. Prevent implies taking advance measures against something possible or probable. Took steps to prevent the strike.
Prevented the disease from spreading. Present participle of prevent 2. To prevent someone from doing something means to make it impossible for them to do it.
He said this would prevent companies from creating new jobs. Prevent something/somebody the accident could have been prevented. See examples of prevent used in a sentence.
Preventing refers to the act of stopping something from happening or arising. Preventing (gerund) activity or experience: Use the gerund "preventing" when you want to refer to the activity itself or the experience as a noun.
Definition of preventing in the definitions.net dictionary. Information and translations of preventing in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions. Preventing destiny from crawling out of the bed wasn't easy.
He gripped her waist with his hands, preventing her from getting an inch closer or further away.
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