Usually means: Stopped something from happening beforehand.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word prevented:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. prevented: Merriam-Webster
  2. prevented: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prevented: Vocabulary.com
  4. Prevented, prevented: Wordnik
  5. prevented: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prevented: Wiktionary
  7. Prevented, prevented: Dictionary.com
  8. Prevented: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. prevented: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. prevented: FreeDictionary.org
  11. prevented: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. prevented: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Prevented: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevented: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevented: Medical dictionary

(Note: See prevent as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prevent)

verb:  (transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
verb:  (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
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