prevails
Saypri-VAYLZ/pɹɪˈveɪlz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of prevail.
Despite fierce opposition, her proposal prevails at almost every committee vote.
Where the two contracts conflict, the more recent agreement prevails.
Note
An intransitive form in every living use: it takes no direct object, so whatever it acts on arrives through a preposition. Justice prevails over force; a friend prevails on you to stay. Its one transitive meaning, "to avail," is obsolete, so it should not be given an object today. With a plural subject or after a modal, the base form returns: they prevail, it will prevail.
prevails is a form of prevail
prevail, verb: To be superior in strength, dominance, or influence; to gain the upper hand over others. Full entry
- Forms
- prevailprevails he/she/itprevailing -ing formprevailed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- prevail → prevails: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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