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P — Preternaturally to Problem (Part 2 of 11)

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.