All 12 Uses
prevent
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
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- But what are you going to do to prevent it?†
Chpt 1.4prevent = stop (something from happening)
- I saw him myself watching her and following her, but I prevented him, and he is just waiting for me to go away.†
Chpt 1.4prevented = stopped (something from happening)
- Fearing the old woman would be frightened by their being alone, and not hoping that the sight of him would disarm her suspicions, he took hold of the door and drew it towards him to prevent the old woman from attempting to shut it again.†
Chpt 1.7prevent = stop (something from happening)
- He tried to pull it out from the front of the dress, but something held it and prevented its coming.†
Chpt 1.7 *prevented = stopped (something from happening)
- Then he struggled to get up, would have run away, but someone always prevented him by force, and he sank back into impotence and forgetfulness.†
Chpt 2.3
- It was only the unbounded confidence inspired by Nastasya's account of her brother's queer friend, which prevented her from trying to run away from him, and to persuade her mother to do the same.†
Chpt 3.1
- She says that it would be best, at least, not that it would be best, but that it's absolutely necessary that Rodya should make a point of being here at eight o'clock and that they must meet.... I didn't want even to show him the letter, but to prevent him from coming by some stratagem with your help...because he is so irritable....Besides I don't understand about that drunkard who died and that daughter, and how he could have given the daughter all the money...which...†
Chpt 3.2prevent = stop (something from happening)
- If there were a millionth fraction of self-interest in my offer, I should not have made it so openly; and I should not have offered her ten thousand only, when five weeks ago I offered her more, Besides, I may, perhaps, very soon marry a young lady, and that alone ought to prevent suspicion of any design on Avdotya Romanovna.†
Chpt 4.1
- Then a man may do nothing but harm to his neighbour in this world, and is prevented from doing the tiniest bit of good by trivial conventional formalities.†
Chpt 4.1prevented = stopped (something from happening)
- He looked uneasily and suspiciously about him to see whether there was not some guard, some mysterious watch being kept on him to prevent his escape.†
Chpt 4.5prevent = stop (something from happening)
- She had made up her mind to come to you; Avdotya Romanovna tried to prevent her; she wouldn't hear a word.†
Chpt 6.1
- Would he have to give himself up perhaps to prevent Dounia from taking some rash step?†
Chpt 6.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(prevent) to stop (something from happening)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)