Foresee vs Prevent - What's the difference?
foresee | prevent |
To anticipate; to predict.
* 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
* Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3
(obsolete) To provide.
* Francis Bacon
To stop; to keep (from happening).
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* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
(obsolete) To come before; to precede.
* Bible, 1 Thess. iv. 15
* Book of Common Prayer
* Prior
(obsolete) To outdo, surpass.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
(obsolete) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
* Alexander Pope
As verbs the difference between foresee and prevent
is that foresee is to anticipate; to predict while prevent is to stop; to keep (from happening).foresee
English
Verb
- "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
- A prudent man foreseeth the evil.
- Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
See also
* forsee English irregular verbsprevent
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- I brushed my teeth to prevent them from going yellow.
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- ‘I think you must be mad, and she shall not have a glimpse of it while I'm here to prevent !’
- We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
- We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us.
- Then had I come, preventing Sheba's queen.
- With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed.
- their ready guilt preventing thy commands