PREVENT

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prevent verb tranzitiv

1. a preveni, a preîntâmpina; proteja împotriva (cu gen.), a pune la adăpost de.

2. (mai ales cu from) a opri, a împiedica; a nu admite, a nu permite, a nu îngădui;

they prevented him from entering l-au împiedicat să intre.

3. (jur.) a anticipa.

I daresay my severe illness prevented him from being that.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Be it only half a play, an act, a scene; what should prevent us?

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

We owe Mrs. Jennings much more than civility; and civility of the commonest kind must prevent such a hasty removal as that.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

And now she was very conscious that she ought to have prevented them.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

You must prevent it, Agnes, while there's time.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I anticipated it. I came in the hope of preventing it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He shall not be in love with me, if I can prevent it.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Do you imagine it would prevent me from doing my duty to so old a friend?

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They could not make sure, perhaps, of doing so tough a young fellow an injury which would certainly prevent him from fighting.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But that doesn't prevent me from loving you the first.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)