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        "From Middle English preventen (“anticipate”), from Latin praeventus, perfect passive participle of praeveniō (“I anticipate”), from prae (“before”) + veniō (“I come”)."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something). \nI brush my teeth regularly to prevent tooth decay.\n2011 October 1,  Tom Fordyce,  “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in  BBC Sport‎:Scotland must now hope Georgia produce a huge upset and beat Argentina by at least eight points in Sunday's final Pool B match to prevent them failing to make the last eight for the first time in World Cup history."
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              "mean": "(intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures. \n1897 October 16,  Henry James,  What Maisie Knew, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Herbert S. Stone & Co., →OCLC:I think you must be mad, and she shall not have a glimpse of it while I'm here to prevent!"
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              "mean": "(obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede. \n1549 March 7​,  Thomas Cranmer , compilers,  The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, , London:    Edowardi Whitchurche , →OCLC:We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us.\n1611,  The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 1 Thessalonians 4:15:We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.\n1718,  Mat Prior,  “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in  Poems on Several Occasions, London:    Jacob Tonson , and John Barber , →OCLC, book II (Pleasure), page 448:Then had I come, preventing Sheba's Queen, / To ſee the comelieſt of the Sons of Men;"
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              "mean": "(obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass. \n1596,  Edmund Spenser,  “Book IV, Canto I”, in  The Faerie Queene. , part II (books IV–VI), London:     for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed."
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              "mean": "(obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.\nc. 1699 – 1703,  Alexander Pope,  “The First Book of Statius His Thebais”, in  The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London:    W Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, , published 1717, →OCLC:their ready guilt preventing thy commands"
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