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Prevent vs Offhold - What's the difference?

prevent | offhold |

In lang=en terms the difference between prevent and offhold

is that prevent is to stop; to keep (from happening) while offhold is to hold off; prevent; refrain; avoid; shun.

As verbs the difference between prevent and offhold

is that prevent is to stop; to keep (from happening) while offhold is (archaic) to retain.

prevent

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To stop; to keep (from happening).
    • I brushed my teeth to prevent them from going yellow.
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  • * 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
    • ‘I think you must be mad, and she shall not have a glimpse of it while I'm here to prevent !’
  • (obsolete) To come before; to precede.
  • * Bible, 1 Thess. iv. 15
    • We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
  • * Book of Common Prayer
    • We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us.
  • * Prior
    • Then had I come, preventing Sheba's queen.
  • (obsolete) To outdo, surpass.
  • * 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • their ready guilt preventing thy commands

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * preventative * prevention * preventive

    offhold

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • (archaic) To retain.
  • To hold off; prevent; refrain; avoid; shun.
  • *1950 , Washington Institute of Medicine, General practice clinics :
    • A scleral rim should be maintained in contact lenses to off-hold and balance the corneal portion from the cornea, preventing exertion of any pressure.
  • *1968 , Titus Maccius Plautus, Paul Nixon, Plautus :
    • No, Love, you must be shunned by every means, offheld and offstood afar, for the man that has fallen headlong into love comes o greater grief than if he cast himself off a cliff.
  • *2009 , A.J.J. Mekking, Eric Roose, The global built environment as a representation of realities :
    • The mighty foundation of massive natural stone, in the Mediterranean realm, in India as well as in Middle- and South America, almost always represents the world of the toiling earthlings who have to off-hold the demons of depth as well as to support their god-miming oppressors.