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    [Verb]  | "pre*vent" | \ pri-ˈvent \


    1: to keep from happening or existing

    2: to hold or keep back : hinder, stop —often used with from

    3: to deprive of power or hope of acting or succeeding


    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English, to anticipate, from Latin praeventus, past participle of praevenire to come before, anticipate, forestall, from prae- + venire to come {mat|come|};

    [Verb]  | "prevents" 


    1: to keep from happening by taking action in advance;


      * e.g., " ... a lot of problems would have been prevented if we'd just prepared better "



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    [Verb]  | "prevent" 


    1: to keep from happening by taking action in advance;


      * e.g., " ... a lot of problems would have been prevented if we'd just prepared better "



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     [ "prevent" ]

    1: Prevent; to stop something from happening

      * e.g.,  ... We will prevent them from scoring 

     [ "preventible" ]

    1: Has the same meaning as preventable, but used only when too stupid to know the proper suffix

      * e.g.,  ... "Jock, why are you crying?" 

     [ "rape prevention prevention" ]

    1: A ficticious course in how to counter rape defense . Offered to rapists who keep getting beat by their selected victims .

      * e.g.,  ... Yea , i'm taking that rape prevention prevention course ' , Back in the day , things were so much easier 

     [ "prevention" ]

    1: A synonym of contraception.

      * e.g.,  ... "Hey, byatch! Youse got protection on yer bling bling?" 

     [ "preventative wiz" ]

    1: Urinating ahead of time while your bladder is roughly 50% full or less to prevent inconvenience of having to do so at a later time with greater need.

      * e.g.,  ... I'm gonna take a preventative wiz before we go so I won't have to drain it while we're out. 

     [ "cutoff prevention" ]

    1: Used mostly in YouTube Poops where a video may only be a few seconds long. Cut-off prevention is a way of adding a few seconds to a video in order to prevent the YouTube player from breaking and not playing a video in its entirety. Usually placed at the end of a video, cut-off prevention is a way of ensuring that the vie

      * e.g.,  ... Tard#1: The retard didn't even use any cutoff prevention. I can't watch the video. Jack#2: lulz 

     [ "preventative masturbation" ]

    1: VERB. Masturbating so as to prevent wet dreams and/or untimely hard ons.

      * e.g.,  ... Dude, I can't believe you had a wet dream last night! You really should start using preventative masturbation. 

     [ "chain of prevents" ]

    1: A chain of events that prevents you from accomplishing anything important.

      * e.g.,  ... Billy: "Did you do the paper for history last night?" Edwards: "Well, I started it but then Jimmy showed up with a twelve and showed me some videos online and... long story short, I didn't get it done because of the unexpected chain of prevents." 

     [ "Pregnancy preventer" ]

    1: Nick Jonas: You know when you’re going to school and you’re carrying you backpack and your back starts to hurt? Just flip it around. I should invent that

      * e.g.,  ... Nick Jonas: You know when you’re going to school and you’re carrying you backpack and your back starts to hurt? Just flip it around. I should invent that 


     [ "Pregnancy preventer" ]

    2: Kevin Jonas: THE PREGNANCY PREVENTER.

      * e.g.,  ... Kevin Jonas: THE PREGNANCY PREVENTER. 

     [ "Ascension Prevention" ]

    1: To leave behind friends/teammates in their moment of need in order to save yourself

      * e.g.,  ... "Help we're being overrun by zombies!" "No use, Dan just Ascension Prevention'd" 

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