prevent from doing

prevent someone from doing something

to keep someone from doing something. You can't prevent me from doing it! We must try to prevent her from going back there.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
AŞTÎ	-	Kurdish
Leni	LE-nee	German
Hatshepsut	haht-SHEP-soot (English)	Ancient Egyptian
Servaos	ser-VAWS	Limburgish
Alicia	a-LEE-thya (Spanish), a-LEE-sya (Latin American Spanish), ə-LIS-yə (English), ə-LIS-ee-ə (English), ə-LISH-ə (English), ə-LEE-shə (English)	Spanish, English
Nicola (1)	nee-KO-lah	Italian