Usually means: Overcome obstacles, emerge as victorious.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. prevail: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prevail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prevail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prevail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prevail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prevail, prevail: Wordnik
  7. prevail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prevail: Wiktionary
  9. prevail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prevail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prevail: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prevail: Dictionary.com
  13. prevail: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prevail: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prevail (album), Prevail (musician), Prevail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prevail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prevail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prevail: Rhymezone
  19. prevail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prevail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prevail: Free Dictionary
  22. prevail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prevail: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. prevail: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. prevail: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. prevail: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevail: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PREVAIL: Acronym Finder
  2. prevail: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prevail: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be superior in strength, dominance, influence, or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To triumph; to be victorious.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be current, widespread, or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To succeed in persuading or inducing.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To avail.

Similar:
persist, obtain, endure, die hard, triumph, hold, predominate, run, dominate, rule, more...

Opposite:
fail, lose, surrender, yield, succumb

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majority, plurality, more...

Phrases:
prevail over, prevail on, prevail against, prevail upon, cooler heads prevail, more...

Colors:
    gold,     crimson,     emerald,     royal blue,     silver,     black,     maroon,     teal,     burgundy,     charcoal


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Similar:
persist, obtain, endure, die hard, triumph, hold, predominate, run, dominate, rule, more...

Opposite:
fail, lose, surrender, yield, succumb

Types:
majority, plurality, more...

Phrases:
prevail over, prevail on, prevail against, prevail upon, cooler heads prevail, I Prevail, Slaughter to Prevail, Sadness Will Prevail, opposite of prevail, still prevail, were to no prevail, to prevail, more...

Colors:
    gold,     crimson,     emerald,     royal blue,     silver,     black,     maroon,     teal,     burgundy,     charcoal



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