Prevail vs Victory - What's the difference?
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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.
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To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
To succeed in persuading]] or [[induce, inducing.
An instance of having won a competition or battle.
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A winged figure representing victory, common in Roman official iconography. See .
(rare) To achieve a
As verbs the difference between prevail and victory
is that prevail is 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 while victory is to achieve a victory.As a noun victory is
an instance of having won a competition or battle.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.
Derived terms
* cooler heads will prevailReferences
* *victory
English
Noun
(victories)citation, page= , passage=England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday.}}
