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We found 41 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word prevent:
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General (33 matching dictionaries)

1. prevent: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. prevent: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
3. prevent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. prevent: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. prevent: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. prevent: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Prevent, prevent: Wordnik [home, info]
8. prevent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. prevent: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. prevent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. prevent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. prevent: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. Prevent, prevent: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. prevent: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. prevent: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. prevent: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. PReVENT, Prevent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
18. Prevent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
19. prevent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
20. prevent: Rhymezone [home, info]
21. prevent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
22. prevent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
23. Prevent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
24. prevent: Free Dictionary [home, info]
25. prevent: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
26. prevent: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
27. prevent: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
28. prevent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
29. prevent: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
30. Prevent: World Wide Words [home, info]
31. prevent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art (1 matching dictionary)

32. PREVENT: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

33. prevent: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

34. prevent: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

35. PREVENT: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

36. PREVENT: Acronym Finder [home, info]
37. PREVENT: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
38. prevent: Idioms [home, info]

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

39. PREVENT: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (prevent) ▸ verb:  prevent from doing something or being in a certain state ("We must prevent the cancer from spreading") ▸ verb:  keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing ▸ Also see prevents ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to prevent ▸ Usage examples for prevent ▸ Words that often appear near prevent ▸ Rhymes of prevent ▸ Invented words related to prevent