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- By preventing "unfit" people from having children, eugenicists believed, the human race would be strengthened.†
p. 12.1 *preventing = stopping (something from happening)
- Even if Japan surrendered, many POWs believed the guards would murder them anyway, out of vengeance or to prevent them from testifying in war crimes trials.†
p. 219.8prevent = stop (something from happening)
- To prevent disaster, someone ran onto the road and wrote DROP HERE.†
p. 227.8
- And as a result of being fed grossly inadequate and befouled food and water, thousands more died of starvation and easily preventable diseases.†
p. 228.7preventable = able to be stopped from happening
Definitions:
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(prevent) to stop (something from happening)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)