Prevent is valid Scrabble Word

Is prevent a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is prevent valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for PREVENT in dictionary:

VERB:

to keep from happening
keep (something) from happening
stop (someone) from doing something
(of God) go before (someone) with spiritual guidance and help.
keep from happening or doing
To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.
To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.
To come before the usual time.
keep from happening or arising; make impossible

stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state

Words related to PREVENT

preventable18 preventably21 prevented15 preventing16 prevents13

Words that contain PREVENT

prevents13 prevented15 preventer14 preventers15 preventing16 prevention15 preventive18 preventable18 preventably21 preventible18 preventibly21 preventions16 preventives19 unprevented17 preventative20 preventively23 preventatives21 unpreventable20 preventability24 preventibility24 preventiveness22 chemoprevention27 chemopreventive30 preventivenesse23 preventabilitie22 preventivenesses24 preventabilities23

How to use PREVENT in a sentence

Should the crust acquire too much colour, place a piece of paper over it to prevent its burning.
If this plan were adopted, special care would have to be taken to prevent children from using words without clearly understanding their meaning and application.
Still the bushes and trees were so thick as to prevent the smallest glimpse at objects below, had the shape of the cliff allowed it, while they even intercepted sounds.
When not engaged in the performance of a specific duty, the proper execution of which would prevent it, a member of the guard will salute all officers who pass him.
This did not prevent a brisk interchange of friendly communications between the uncle and nephew.
But it is our business, as citizens of this great commonwealth, to prevent it.
I knew that Miss Darrell had set her against me, and that for some reason of her own she wished to prevent her calling upon me.
But it is so easy of defense that a few men can prevent any entrance there without danger.
The opponent meanwhile tries to prevent this and to wind the ball in the opposite direction by striking it as one would volley in tennis.
One thing indeed he determined upon, that against her own will she should never become a nun, if it were in his power to prevent it.

The country was laid waste to prevent their subsistence.
It may prevent my ever being able to get near him again before he dies.
Changes in work which prevent a sense of monotony will greatly increase the power to work.
But my nurse never allowed this if a ready excuse could prevent it.
There are the women, waists open at the throat, sleeves rolled up, hair pulled back to prevent the irritation of loose ends on damp skins, bare feet on the cement floor.
And he could refuse a hearing to his conscience, and could prevent himself from thinking uncomfortably of the future, as well as most young men.
Neb led Top in a leash, to prevent him from bounding forward.
If he is such a mean hound as to insist on your marrying him, then I will appeal to your father and mother, and they must prevent him.
To prevent the masses yet behind from closing their lines, Finley took the rifle of one of his companions, and levelled another.
Wade, the chief constable, to take care of themselves, as they were bent on taking their lives, as well as to prevent them from growing grain, or keeping goods of any kind.
The very qualities which give such a grace and power to his personality, being spiritual qualities, prevent him from capturing the loud and grateful loyalty of a political party.
Pour into a glass dish which has had warm water standing in it, to prevent cracking, and eat cold.

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