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We can't prevent earthquakes, but we can prepare for them.prevent = stop (something from happening)
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Antibiotics will not prevent a cold.
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Probably to prevent gunters from calling for help or advice. (source)prevent = keep (stop something from happening)
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He saw to it that all the sheep entered through the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent the flock from wandering away during the night. (source)
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If the handlers dumped the medicine out of the hoppers to prevent its being dispensed, an alarm sounded which could not be turned off. (source)prevent = stop
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There the rocky roof came down close to the surface of the stream, and from it a portcullis could be dropped right to the bed of the river to prevent anyone coming in or out that way. (source)
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But to prevent them from getting behind him, he was forced back, down past the pool and into the creek bed, till he brought up against a high gravel bank. (source)prevent = stop
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But it was hard getting used to his new, erect posture, which prevented him from slumping on the sofa with the rest of us.† (source)prevented = stopped (something from happening)
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The headmaster's tie turns into a noose again, preventing blood from getting to his face.† (source)preventing = stopping (something from happening)
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Instead, he presses a button on the dashboard that prevents air circulation.† (source)prevents = stops (something from happening)
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The National Board of Boo-Boo Prevention† (source)Prevention = the act or process of stopping something from happeningstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Two deacons wedged themselves around Brother Jackson as a preventive measure and two large determined-looking men walked down the aisle toward Sister Monroe.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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The tragedy that followed, she and her husband believe, was thoroughly preventable.† (source)preventable = able to be stopped from happening
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A disease preventative measure.† (source)preventative = (adjective) designed to stop something OR (noun) something that stops something else
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You know that he was but lately a student at the University at Cambridge, and he sent at once to his friends, asking them to inquire of the great physicians who are teachers there, to find out what could be known of the latest preventives and remedies.† (source)preventives = things designed to stops something else
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During the most violent shocks of the Typhoon, the man at the Pequod's jaw-bone tiller had several times been reelingly hurled to the deck by its spasmodic motions, even though preventer tackles had been attached to it—for they were slack—because some play to the tiller was indispensable.† (source)preventer = someone who stops something from happening
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