• v.
    ⦿stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
    lexical concept
  • His snoring kept me from falling asleep
  • Keep the child from eating the marbles
  • We must prevent the cancer from spreading

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:keep
  2. enl:prevent
wn:interlingual indexili:i33977

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • prevent
  • keepprevent