We must prevent a war by all possible means.
Source: tatoeba (23093)
Prevent
//pɹɪˈvɛnt//
Synonyms for "prevent" (95 found)
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2 entriesAntonyms
4 entriesderived
13 entriesdistinct from
1 entriesrelated to
36 entriesShowing 16 of 36 words.
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1 entriesTranslations
87 translations across 52 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κωλύω verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Arabic
2 entries- منع verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- مَنَعَ verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Belarusian
2 entries- прадухіля́ць verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- прадухілі́ць verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Bulgarian
2 entries- попречвам verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- предотвратявам verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Catalan
2 entries- impedir verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- prevenir verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 防止 verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- 預防 /预防 verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Czech
2 entries- bránit verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- zabránit verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Danish
1 entries- forhindre verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Dutch
2 entries- verhinderen verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- voorkomen verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Esperanto
3 entries- malebligi verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- malhelpi verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- preventi verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Estonian
1 entries- ennetama verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Finnish
2 entries- ehkäistä verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- estää verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
French
1 entries- empêcher verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Galician
1 entries- impedir verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
German
3 entries- etwas daran hindern (zu geschehen) verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- verhindern verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- vorbeugen verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Greek
1 entries- αποτρέπω verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- anpeche verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Hebrew
1 entries- מָנַע verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Hindi
1 entries- निवारण verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Hungarian
3 entries- megakadályoz verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- megelőz verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- meggátol verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Indonesian
1 entries- mencegah verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Ingrian
2 entries- essyttää verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- estää verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Irish
2 entries- coisc verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- urghair verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Italian
2 entries- impedire verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- prevenire verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Japanese
1 entries- 予防する verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Kazakh
3 entries- алдын алу verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- болдырмай қою verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- болдырмау verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Korean
2 entries- 막다 verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- 방해하다 verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Kumyk
1 entries- болма къоймамакъ verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Latin
1 entries- arceō verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Macedonian
1 entries- спречи verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Malay
1 entries- mencegah verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Malayalam
1 entries- തടയുക verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡩᠣᡳᡤᠣᠮᡧᠣᠮᠪᡳ verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Middle English
1 entries- merren verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Māori
2 entries- whakahōtaetae verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- whakakati verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forebygge verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Polish
2 entries- zapobiec verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- zapobiegać verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Portuguese
2 entries- impedir verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- prevenir verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Romanian
2 entries- preveni verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- preîntâmpina verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Russian
4 entries- меша́ть verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- помеша́ть verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- предотврати́ть verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- предотвраща́ть verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- sprečávati verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- spréčiti verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- спре́чити verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- спреча́вати verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Southern Altai
1 entries- болдырбаар verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Spanish
2 entries- impedir verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- prevenir verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Swedish
2 entries- förebygga verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- förhindra verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Tagalog
1 entries- iwasan verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Telugu
1 entries- నివారించు verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Thai
1 entries- ป้องกัน verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Ukrainian
2 entries- запобі́гти verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- запобіга́ти verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Vietnamese
2 entries- ngăn verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- ngăn chặn verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Welsh
2 entries- atal verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
- rhwystro verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- me-am bak verb (to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
Nothing can prevent her from marrying him.
Source: tatoeba (24609)
We must prevent war at any cost.
Source: tatoeba (24907)
We must prevent the fire from reaching the gunpowder at any cost.
Source: tatoeba (24911)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.