prevents
Saypri-VENTS/pɹɪˈvɛnts/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of prevent.
Regular maintenance prevents the engine from overheating.
A strict screening process prevents counterfeit goods from reaching the shelves.
Note
Its working construction is an object followed by from and a gerund, as in prevents the pipes from freezing, though a bare object serves just as well: prevents fraud. Older prose is the trap. There the same form can carry the verb's obsolete meanings, so something that prevents another may simply come before it, outdo it or anticipate it rather than stop it.
prevents 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 → prevents: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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