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Traditional English :: prevent
prevent - v.tr.
1 (often foll. by from + verbal noun) stop from happening or doing something; hinder; make impossible (the weather prevented me from going).
2 archaic go or arrive before, precede.
    preventable adj. (also preventible). preventability n. (also preventibility). preventer n. prevention n. [ME = anticipate, f. L praevenire praevent- come before, hinder (as PRAE-, venire come)]
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