All 7 Uses of
prevent
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- I was beginning to be afraid you weren't coming for me and I was imagining all the things that might have happened to prevent you.†
p. 11.9prevent = stop (something from happening)
- The next morning warnings of a sick headache prevented Marilla from going to Sunday-school with Anne.†
p. 76.8 *prevented = stopped (something from happening)
- She reads entirely too much—" this to Marilla as the little girls went out—"and I can't prevent her, for her father aids and abets her.†
p. 83.7prevent = stop (something from happening)
- I don't feel that I could endure the disappointment if anything happened to prevent me from getting to the picnic.†
p. 90.4
- You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.†
p. 91.1
- But you can't prevent me.†
p. 296.8
- I guess you can't prevent him now.†
p. 298.5
Definition:
to stop (something from happening)