8 uses
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Definition
to stop (something from happening)
- "If I am prevented from coming to-morrow, you will say I have deceived you!" he said.Chapter 29 (89% in)
- She had not a high sense of humour, but she had enough to prevent her from making this mistake; and her brother, on his side, had enough to excuse her, in her situation, for laying him under contribution during a considerable part of a lifetime.Chapter 2 (17% in)
- Your being a distinguished physician has not prevented you from already losing TWO MEMBERS of your family!Chapter 19 (35% in)
- And he answered her in words that corresponded to the look: "It may not prevent me, either, from losing the society of still another."Chapter 19 (39% in)
- What is to prevent it?Chapter 20 (41% in)
- What prevents your meeting as often as you choose?Chapter 22 (63% in)
- But the deuce will be that I can't prevent anything."Chapter 27 (70% in)
- How can you be prevented?Chapter 29 (90% in)
There are no more uses of "prevent" in Washington Square.
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