prevented
- 1Simple past and past participle of prevent.
Heavy rain prevented the two teams from finishing the match.
The new safety rules have prevented many accidents on the factory floor.
Note
One regular -ed spelling does double duty. It closes a simple past (rain prevented the match), and it supplies the participle after have in the perfect and after be in the passive. There it usually brings from along: the teams were prevented from finishing. In older writing, watch for a vanished meaning. Prevented could once mean came before or anticipated, so an old text may describe someone getting ahead of something rather than stopping it.
prevented is a form of prevent
prevent, verb: To stop a particular event from happening, or to stop a particular person or thing from doing something. Full entry
- Forms
- preventprevents he/she/itpreventing -ing formprevented past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- prevent → prevented: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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