Vocabulary

Form

to defend against; to protect against

verb vt
N3 freq #25

Example sentences

If he had been a little more careful, the accident would have been avoided.

Careful driving prevents accidents.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

We restrained the boy from breaking the window.

We must prevent a war by all possible means.

Fire cannot be prevented by half measures.

We must prevent war at any cost.

That does not prevent them from taking just as many books.