All 3 Uses
prevent
in
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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- With liver burning hot: prevent, or go thou, Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels.†
Scene 2.1prevent = stop (something from happening)
- I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on Falstaff, and laugh at Page.†
Scene 2.2
- Have I laid my brain in the sun, and dried it, that it wants matter to prevent so gross o'er-reaching as this?†
Scene 5.5 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(prevent) to stop (something from happening)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)