(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
Used in a Sentence
prevented
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for prevented.
Editorial note
Having to interrupt myself every ten minutes to do a pinprick prevented me from doing anything that required concentration.
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Quick take
(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of prevented gathered in one view.
(intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for prevented.
verb
(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
verb
(intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
Example sentences
Having to interrupt myself every ten minutes to do a pinprick prevented me from doing anything that required concentration.
TCL has always seemed to me to be the incumbent that prevented uses of more modern languages.
Would preventing WaMu and Countrywide Financial from running prop desks (which they didn't do anyway) have somehow prevented the crisis?
Or would preventing Bear Stearns from issuing mortgages (which they didn't do anyway) have somehow prevented them from going bust?
It's a pity that bad location and bad timing prevented you from jumping ship.
Hubel and Wiesel showed that depriving cats of stereo cues during a critical period prevented development of depth perception based on parallax info.
What specific sort of oversight/enforcement/regulation do you believe would have prevented 2008?
That prevented other browser from competing on an even playing field.
Blacklists are the de facto solution that we implemented because using that list prevented any consensus of any other method of combating spam.
People have proposed that all the carbon released by this activity did have an impact on the planet and this prevented us from re-entering another ice age.
I'm also saying that your magic culture theory of regulation, if true, should have prevented the S&L crisis (since GS was in force then).
So, stopping code injection for example, I find that all kinds of hardware from 1960-1980 tagged memory & used CPU in ways that prevented it.
Quote examples
>"a formula written on paper in pencil was improperly transcribed" offtopic, but a unit type would have prevented that.
Another thing which should be in this list (relating to floating point rounding error): "On 25 February 1991, a loss of significance in a MIM-104 Patriot missile battery prevented it intercepting an incoming Scud missile in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, contributing to the death of 28 soldiers from the U.
Could someone who thinks this is censorship please explain why Github doesn't have the right to control its own privately owned website, and how one single website monitoring the language used there is equivalent to a government "universally" (well, within its borders) coercively prohibiting all such content, such that the person in question is prevented from publishing it anywhere else, even by themselves?
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use prevented in a sentence?
Having to interrupt myself every ten minutes to do a pinprick prevented me from doing anything that required concentration.
What does prevented mean?
(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
What part of speech is prevented?
prevented is commonly used as verb.