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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈvɛnt/
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• /pɹəˈvɛnt/ weak vowel merger
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• rhymes with -ɛnt
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• CMU ARPABET: P R IH0 V EH1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: P R IY0 V EH1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English preventen (“anticipate”), from Latin praeventus, perfect passive participle of praeveniō (“to anticipate”), from prae (“before”) + veniō (“to come”).

92 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Southern Altai: болдырбаар (boldïrbaar) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Arabic: مَنَعَ (manaʕa) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Arabic: منع (manaʕ) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Azerbaijani: qabağını almaq — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Azerbaijani: qarşısını almaq — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Azerbaijani: qabaqlamaq — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Belarusian: прадухіля́ць (praduxiljácʹ) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Belarusian: прадухілі́ць (praduxilícʹ) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Bulgarian: предотвратявам (predotvratjavam) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Bulgarian: попречвам (poprečvam) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Catalan: impedir — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Catalan: prevenir — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Chinese Mandarin: 預防 /预防 (yùfáng) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Chinese Mandarin: 防止 (fángzhǐ) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Czech: bránit — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Czech: zabránit — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Danish: forhindre — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Dutch: verhinderen — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Dutch: voorkomen — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Esperanto: malhelpi — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Esperanto: malebligi — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Esperanto: preventi — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Estonian: ennetama — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Finnish: estää — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Finnish: ehkäistä — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• French: empêcher — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Galician: impedir — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• German: verhindern — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• German: vorbeugen — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• German: etwas daran hindern (zu geschehen) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (analatjan) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Greek: αποτρέπω (apotrépo) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Ancient Greek: κωλύω (kōlúō) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Haitian Creole: anpeche — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Hebrew: מָנַע (maná') — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Hindi: निवारण (nivāraṇ) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Hungarian: megakadályoz — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Hungarian: meggátol — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Hungarian: megelőz — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Indonesian: mencegah — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Ingrian: estää — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Ingrian: essyttää — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Irish: urghair — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Irish: coisc — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Italian: impedire — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Italian: prevenire — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Japanese: 予防する (yobō suru) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Kazakh: болдырмай қою (boldyrmai qoü) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Kazakh: алдын алу (aldyn alu) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Kazakh: болдырмау (boldyrmau) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Korean: 막다 (makda) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Korean: 방해하다 (banghaehada) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Kumyk: болма къоймамакъ (bolma qoymamaq) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Latin: arceō — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Macedonian: спречи (spreči) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Malay: mencegah — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Malayalam: തടയുക (taṭayuka) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Manchu: ᡩᠣᡳᡤᠣᠮᡧᠣᠮᠪᡳ (doigomšombi) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Māori: whakahōtaetae — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Māori: whakakati — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Middle English: merren — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Norwegian Bokmål: forebygge — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Polish: zapobiegać — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Polish: zapobiec — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Portuguese: impedir — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Portuguese: prevenir — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Romanian: preveni — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Romanian: preîntâmpina — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Russian: предотвраща́ть (predotvraščátʹ) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Russian: предотврати́ть (predotvratítʹ) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Russian: меша́ть (mešátʹ) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Russian: помеша́ть (pomešátʹ) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Serbo-Croatian: спре́чити — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Serbo-Croatian: спреча́вати — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Serbo-Croatian: spréčiti — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Serbo-Croatian: sprečávati — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Spanish: impedir — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Spanish: prevenir — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Swedish: förhindra — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Swedish: förebygga — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Tagalog: iwasan — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Telugu: నివారించు (nivāriñcu) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Thai: ป้องกัน (bpɔ̂ng-gan) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Tok Pisin: abrusim — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Tok Pisin: daunim — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Ukrainian: запобіга́ти (zapobiháty) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Ukrainian: запобі́гти (zapobíhty) — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Vietnamese: ngăn — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Vietnamese: ngăn chặn — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Welsh: atal — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Welsh: rhwystro — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off
• Woiwurrung: me-am bak — to keep from happening — see also forestall, avert, ward off