Prevalent, a.
- 1. Superior, predominant, successful, prevailing, efficacious.
- 2. Prevailing, predominant, most general, extensively existing.
Prevalently, ad. Powerfully, forcibly.
Prevaricate, v. n. Quibble, shuffle, cavil, palter, dodge, evade the truth, equivocate, shift.
Prevarication, n. Equivocation, cavil, quibbling, shuffling.
Prevenient, a.
- 1. Preliminary, prefatory, antecedent, initiatory, introductory, going before, preceding.
- 2. Preventing, preventive.
Prevent, v. a. Obstruct, stop, hinder, impede, thwart, intercept, preclude, interrupt, obviate, debar.
Prevention, n. Obstruction, stoppage, hindrance, interruption.
Preventive, a. Deterrent, tending to prevent.
Preventive, n. (Med.) Prophylactic.
Previous, a. Antecedent, prior, former, preceding, anterior, foregoing.
Previously, ad. Before, antecedently, beforehand.
Prevision, n. Foresight, foreknowledge, prescience.
Prey, n.
- 1. Plunder, booty, spoil, pillage, rapine, loot.
- 2. Ravin, food, victim, quarry.
- 3. Ravage, depredation.
- 4. Victim.
Prey on or upon.
- 1. Plunder, pillage, rob, despoil.
- 2. Devour, feed upon.