prévenir — meaning in English

English meaning

• avert verb To prevent something bad from happening.
• forestall verb To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
• help verb To provide assistance to someone or something.
• prevent verb To stop something from happening, or to keep someone from doing something.
• warn verb To alert someone to a danger, problem, or something unpleasant that may happen.

Senses

prévenir is used for these senses in English:

• avert (transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
• forestall (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
• help (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
• prevent (transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something). [from 16th c.]
• ward off (transitive) To avert or prevent.
• warn (transitive) To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:

avert — full definition

1. verb To prevent something bad from happening.
2. verb To turn one's eyes or attention away from something.

forestall — full definition

1. verb To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
2. verb To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
3. verb To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
4. verb To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.

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