Crossword-Solution: PREVENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prevent | v. t. | To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. |
| Prevent | v. t. | To be beforehand with; to anticipate. |
| Prevent | v. t. | To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart. |
| Prevent | v. i. | To come before the usual time. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PREVENT (5)
Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great and universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object.
They were not only new trousers, but they were the first he had ever had with braid on them, and he had had to bite his lip to prevent the tears coming.
Witness the Streets of _Sodom_, and that night In _Gibeah_, when hospitable Dores Yielded thir Matrons to prevent worse rape.
Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the _inch,_ and no precaution could prevent me from taking the _ell._ The plan which I adopted, and the one by which I was most successful, was that of making friends of all the little white boys whom I met in the street.
The wind came in at the bottom of the door, to prevent which Oak wheeled the cot round a little more to the south.
Quotes with PREVENT (3)
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Slowly, God is opening my eyes to needs all around me. In Scripture, God revisits this issue of caring for the poor- an echo that repeats itself from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible acknowledges that the poor will always be part of society, but God takes on their cause. The Mosaic law of the Old Testament is filled with regulations to prevent and eliminate poverty. The poor were given the right to glean- to take produce from the unharvested edges of the fields, a portion of …
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1971–2022).