prevail
— Verb
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～ continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"
prevail
— Verb
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～ prove superior; "The champion prevailed, though it was a hard fight"
prevail
— Verb
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～ be valid, applicable, or true; "This theory still holds"
prevail
— Verb
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～ use persuasion successfully; "He prevailed upon her to visit his parents"
prevailing party
— Noun
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～ the party in a lawsuit who obtains a judgment in their own favor
prevailing
— Adjective
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～ most frequent or common; "prevailing winds"
prevalence
— Noun
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～ a superiority in numbers or amount; "a preponderance of evidence against the defendant"
prevalence
— Noun
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～ the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future"
prevalence
— Noun
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～ (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population
prevalent
— Adjective
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～ most frequent or common; "prevailing winds"
prevaricate
— Verb
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～ be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
prevarication
— Noun
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～ intentionally vague or ambiguous
prevarication
— Noun
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～ the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
prevarication
— Noun
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～ a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
prevaricator
— Noun
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～ a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
prevenient
— Adjective
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～ in anticipation
prevent
— Verb
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～ stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles"
prevent
— Verb
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～ keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project"
preventable
— Adjective
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～ capable of being prevented; "conscious of preventable human suffering"- A.L.Guerard
preventative
— Noun
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～ an agent or device intended to prevent conception