"prevent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

prevent verbo

prevent + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 635
prevent diseases • prevent attacks • prevent damage • prevent infection • prevent injuries • prevent cancer • prevent abuse • ...
verbo + prevent
Kolokacji: 220
help prevent • prevent from escaping • prevent by changing • prevent from killing • prevent from winning • used prevent • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 26
(2) escape, want, stick, hope
Kolokacji: 4
(8) intend, design, mean, think
Kolokacji: 5
2. designed to prevent = zaprojektowany by zapobiec designed to prevent
3. meant to prevent = mieć zamiar zapobiec meant to prevent
4. prevent from thinking = powstrzymaj się od myślenia prevent from thinking
5. mean preventing = oznaczaj zapobieganie mean preventing
  • Screening can also mean preventing access of something by some sort of barrier:
  • Secondary prevention means preventing a disease that a person has already had from coming back.
  • But the effort to preserve farms doesn't mean just preventing pretty fields of moo cows from giving way to tract houses.
  • By that, he meant preventing outsiders from coming in and driving prices beyond those the residents can afford.
  • Paving a way for peace does not only mean preventing armed warfare.
  • Now he was back to thinking like a doctor, and that meant preventing bloodshed at any cost.
  • "If it means preventing any more of my marines from dying, then just watch me."
  • Compliance with the precautionary principle, however, does not mean preventing any technological progress in the field of processing foods.
  • Do we believe that prevention means preventing life?
  • Does it mean perhaps preventing all citizens from publicly expressing their religion?
(11) occur, happen, take, repeat
Kolokacji: 4
(18) harm, hurt, injure
Kolokacji: 3
(20) own, dominate
Kolokacji: 2
(21) discover, reveal, leak, expose
Kolokacji: 4
(23) stop, block, disrupt
Kolokacji: 3
(25) fight, compete, defend
Kolokacji: 4
(26) sue, file
Kolokacji: 2
prevent + preposición
Kolokacji: 29
prevent from • prevent by • prevent during • prevent through • prevent into • ...
prevent + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 29
effectively prevent • successfully prevent • actually prevent • further prevent • completely prevent • ...

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