Prevail vs Predominate - What's the difference?
prevail | predominate |
To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.
* , Exodus 17:11
To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
To succeed in persuading]] or [[induce, inducing.
To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
In intransitive terms the difference between prevail and predominate
is that prevail is to succeed in persuading or inducing while predominate is to be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.As an adjective predominate is
predominant.prevail
English
Verb
(en verb)- Red colour prevails in the Canadian flag.
- And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed'; and when he let down his hand, Amalek ' prevailed .
- In his day and age, such practices prevailed all over Europe.
- I prevailed on him to wait.