Crossword clues for prevented
prevented
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prevent \Pre*vent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prevented; p. pr. & vb. n. Preventing.] [L. praevenire, praeventum; prae before + venire to come. See Come.]
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To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. [Obs.]
We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
--1 Thess. iv. 15.We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us.
--Bk. of Common Prayer.Then had I come, preventing Sheba's queen.
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To be beforehand with; to anticipate. [Obs.]
Their ready guilt preventing thy commands.
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To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart. ``This vile purpose to prevent.''
--Shak.Perhaps forestalling night prevented them.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: prevent)
Usage examples of "prevented".
Later the Authority was somewhat exonerated of primary guilt since the Court felt that good judgment on the part of any one of the other three skippers would have prevented the accident and no costs were awarded the claimants.
Perhaps, in some prehistoric time on Clarf, primitive Mrdinis had prevented or interfered with the evolution of biologically similar life-forms.
The deep woods prevented a clear view of the sky and he charged recklessly toward the colony, desperately afraid he would see the exhaust flares of the Spacedep ship.
The lump in his throat prevented him from saying anything until he'd melted it with coffee.
If he didn't show u when and where he was supposed to, then he wa prevented, if you understand me.
A narrow trail to the summit prevented attack by all but small agile creatures.
She was prevented from sending any message and died by her own hand after a lengthy aria explaining why she was willing to kill not only herself but her unborn child.
As Chaumel and Keff passed by, they raised their voices with the complaint that they had been wrongly prevented from finishing their contest.
A heap of boxes prevented her from getting too close, so Mirina stood back to admire the view.
Henry disconnected her line, shaking his head, knowing how worried the girl would be until she heard they'd prevented the collision.
Shevchenko took one step toward Peter and stopped, blinking in astonishment when some invisible force prevented him from moving farther forward.
She would have fallen off if Dave had not quickly prevented it with hands and knees.
He had been at the Space Station's Inauguration and prevented a mutiny.
Judging by what she had empathed of personal distress, even Kincaid's maturity and a wider scope of experience had not prevented a trauma with which he was trying to cope.
That they prevented serious injury by rescuing seventy-five crew members, human and Mrdini, during the course of your exploration of Refugee which was completed in less than thescheduled time: that they were also able to discover and turn on the ship's independent power system.