Prevents is valid Scrabble Word

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

8 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for PREVENTS in dictionary:

VERB:

PREVENT, to keep from happening
keep (something) from happening
stop (someone) from doing something
(of God) go before (someone) with spiritual guidance and help.

Words related to PREVENTS

prevent12 prevented15 preventing16

How to use PREVENTS in a sentence

Anything which prevents the air getting into the lungs will produce it.
And this punishment prevents the criminal for a while from repeating his criminal deed.
Ask them what prevents the water from flowing into the bottle.
There is something under it which prevents its shutting down.
It not only saves jarring, but it prevents worse disasters, and without it a man is only safe when he is alone.
The trees also aid each other in forming a close canopy that prevents the rapid evaporation of water from the ground.
Vetravati, tell the minister Pishuna in my name that a sleepless night prevents me from mounting the throne of judgment.
The ground prevents active support by the French artillery.
It is undue pre-occupation with self which blinds people, and prevents their seeing what the occasion requires.
We have made the commitment to France that I have read to the House which prevents us doing that.

His social status prevents him from making the proper sales approach.
The dried body of a dead toad, worn in the breast, prevents the possessor of the charm from being injured by any infectious disease.
This superstitious belief often prevents seamen and fishermen picking up and taking ashore dead bodies discovered at sea.
The tiny lip projecting down from the upper, and up from the lower jaw prevents sidewise escape of the shaft of a pin, tack, nail or needle.
But there is a lack of strength and vigor in Addison, which perhaps prevents his being the best model for the advocate in the court-house or the champion in a political debate.
If nothing untoward prevents, I shall be in London for a week early in June, and then go to Paris and Ober-Ammergau.
Terror sometimes becomes so intense that it prevents flight and brings convulsions and death.
It is mainly accident or the lack of some particular circumstance that prevents a murder.
This prevents waste, and if the patient is not ready for the tea, it can be easily kept hot.
Nothing prevents me from going to England to find employment, and necessarily my wife will go with me.
This country claims to uphold the Monroe Doctrine, which prevents European nations from interfering with force in affairs on this continent.
Once more the eminent man who is dead seizes the maddened lover who is living and prevents a disaster.
A certain chemical coarseness is all that prevents its being so entirely transparent as to be totally invisible.
A frog has lodged itself in the opening of the spring, this prevents the flow of water.
It is a work of great charity, and one that prevents great offenses to God.
He has one grave fault, however, that prevents him from being a very great help, and that is his inability to remain long in one place.

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