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prevent
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prevent
v.
cause not to happen, avert; delay, impede, hinder
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PReVENT
PReVENT is a European automotive industry activity co-funded by the European Commission to contribute to road safety by developing and demonstrating preventive safety applications and technologies.
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Prevention
Prevention may refer to:
Health and medicine
- Prevention (magazine), an American healthy lifestyle magazine
- Preventive medicine, measures to prevent diseases or injuries rather than curing them or treating their symptoms
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prevent
Verb
1. keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"
(synonym) forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
(hyponym) save, make unnecessary
2. prevent from doing something or being in a certain state; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles"
(synonym) keep
(antonym) let, allow, permit
(hyponym) defend
(verb-group) keep
(derivation) prevention, bar
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prevent
v.
zabránit
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prevent
Czas.
zapobiegać; przeszkadzać; uniemożliwiać
