Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To be greater in strength or influence; triumph.
- intransitive verb To be most common or frequent; be predominant.
- intransitive verb To be in force, use, or effect; be current.
- intransitive verb To use persuasion or inducement successfully. Often used with on, upon, or with. synonym: persuade.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be superior in strength; hence, to have or gain the advantage, as in a contest or matching of strength; be victorious; triumph; have the upper hand: often followed by over or against.
- To have or exert superior influence; have a controlling or overmastering authority; be predominant.
- To operate effectually; be effective; succeed, especially in persuading, inducing, or convincing.
- To be in force; extend with power or effect; hence, to be prevalent or current.
- To be currently received or believed; be established.
- To avail; be of value or service.
- To avail: used reflexively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with
over oragainst . - intransitive verb To be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain.
- intransitive verb To persuade or induce; -- with
on ,upon , orwith .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To be
superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; tooutnumber others. - verb intransitive To be
current ,widespread orpredominant ; to have currency orprevalence . - verb intransitive To succeed in
persuading orinducing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb continue to exist
- verb be valid, applicable, or true
- verb use persuasion successfully
- verb prove superior
- verb be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Elena Kagan will likely be a satisfactory selection for the Supreme Court though what truly needs to happen for the National Interest to prevail is for Scalia AND Kennedy to retire within the next year or two.
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I hope the country is finally turning a corner where common sense will once again prevail over the insanity of the last 30 years.
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Will Franklin prevail or will Belfort continue his winning streak?
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I hope the country is finally turning a corner where common sense will once again prevail over the insanity of the last 30 years.
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In fact, should McCain prevail in 2008, he will be inheriting a legacy of red ink in which Mr. Bush took a projected $5.6 trillion surplus over the next ten years and has left America with a hefty deficit.
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In fact, should McCain prevail in 2008, he will be inheriting a legacy of red ink in which Mr. Bush took a projected $5.6 trillion surplus over the next ten years and has left America with a hefty deficit.
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DFC foresees such a fierce competition for dominance of the market between three new generation video game systems — Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360 — that predicting which video game console system will prevail is simply impossible at this point.
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The spectacle, nothing short of extraordinary, displayed not a decade later, of this nation, one of the nations-one of the most important of nations -- and one which has always advocated peaceful methods, actually spurning the most promising means ever suggested to have peaceful methods prevail, is as startling as it was unexpected.
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From experience I have come to the conclusion that, though both should be found in the whole range of stories, the dramatic element should prevail from the very nature of the presentation, and also because it reaches the larger number of children, at least of normal children.
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The crime which the state commits in allowing such a condition to prevail is as yet unnamed.
In Times Like These 1915
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