Read full poem →Stubble mulching, on the other hand, depressed yield of grain without affecting pas-
ture yield. The value of stubble mulching may depend on its efficiency in preventing wind
erosion and conserving moisture, factors which often compensate for a slight loss of
Dictionary Entry
To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
In a Sentence
“I brush my teeth regularly to prevent them from turning yellow.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
any preventingpreventing thuspreventing thereby
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Poetry examples for “preventing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →They run full sail to their Japonian mart;
Preventing fear, and prodigal of fame,
Sell all of Christian to the very name._--P. 179.
Read full poem →stone, so called primitively because it was belicyed to have the virtue of
preventing drunkenness,
Read full poem →Q.C. Second Edition. With a Supplement comprising the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,
the Rules of Court made thereunder, and the (proposed) Beguifttions for Preventing Collisions
at Sea. By the Hon. J. W. Mansfield, M.A., and G. W. Duncan, Esq., B.A., of the Inner