All 10 Uses
prevent
in
Interview with the Vampire
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- I'd prevented him from killing the boy for months, and now he meant to kill him before the Spanish boy could.†
Part 1 *prevented = stopped (something from happening)
- You see Claudia slipping away from you, yet you seem powerless to prevent it, and then you would hasten it, and yet you do nothing.†
Part 3prevent = stop (something from happening)
- And only the thought of the awful humiliation of hearing my own cry closed in with me, flooding my ears, yet locked in with me, prevented me from calling out.†
Part 3prevented = stopped (something from happening)
- And I knew also, could tell in everything about Armand's passivity, the manner in which he spoke, that he would follow me if I returned, that he would not try to prevent me.†
Part 3prevent = stop (something from happening)
- I could see Armand's rich, brown eye close to mine, and I felt weak all over and vaguely aware that Madeleine and Claudia were dead, his voice saying softly, perhaps soundlessly, 'I could not prevent it, I could not prevent it..., And they were dead, simply dead.†
Part 3
- I could see Armand's rich, brown eye close to mine, and I felt weak all over and vaguely aware that Madeleine and Claudia were dead, his voice saying softly, perhaps soundlessly, 'I could not prevent it, I could not prevent it..., And they were dead, simply dead.†
Part 3
- 'I could not prevent it,' Armand said softly to me.†
Part 3
- And I could feel that detachment, that passivity in him as something pervasive which was at the root of what he insisted to me again, 'I could not have prevented it.'†
Part 3prevented = stopped (something from happening)
- Oh, but you could have prevented it!†
Part 3
- I lifted not a finger to prevent it.†
Part 3prevent = stop (something from happening)
Definitions:
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(1)
(prevent) to stop (something from happening)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)