All 6 Uses of
prevent
in
Not Without My Daughter
- For example, it was a crime for a woman to do anything to prevent conception against her husband's wishes.†
*prevent = stop (something from happening)
- How could I have not seen and thus prevented this misery?†
prevented = stopped (something from happening)
- Finally, I learned of another and perhaps most important contingency that prevented Moody from considering a return.†
- There's no way you can prevent him from having visitation rights.†
prevent = stop (something from happening)
- There's no way you can prevent him from having visitation rights with Mahtob.†
- I did not know what Moody would do next, but I knew that he had not yet called the police, and I was confident that my threat would prevent him from doing so-at least tonight.†
Definition:
to stop (something from happening)