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Another word for prevail

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Verb

  1. To occupy the preeminent position in

      1. To enjoy a commanding, controlling position in:
      2. To exert a supreme, guiding influence on or over:
      3. To control, govern, or rule by superior authority or power:
      1. To have or gain controlling power or influence; prevail:
      2. To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
      3. To have ascendancy, authority, or dominating influence (over others); hold sway
      1. To sink or incline downward, as a scale of a balance
      2. To be greater than something else, as in power, force, quantity, or importance; predominate:
      3. To surpass others in amount, number, power, influence, importance, etc.; predominate
      1. To hold sway; prevail or predominate
      2. To hold the title of monarch, but with limited authority.
      3. To rule as a sovereign
      1. To have authority over; govern; direct
      2. To exercise control, dominion, or direction over; govern:
      3. To decide or declare authoritatively or judicially; decree:
    Idioms:
    See also:

    over

Idioms:

    over

  1. To win a victory over, as in battle or a competition

    2. upon

  2. To succeed in causing (a person) to act in a certain way

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Another word for prevail

Verb
      1. To have ascendancy, authority, or dominating influence (over others); hold sway
      2. To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
      3. (Intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
      1. To sink or incline downward, as a scale of a balance
      2. To be greater than something else, as in power, force, quantity, or importance; predominate:
      3. To surpass others in amount, number, power, influence, importance, etc.; predominate
      1. To exercise authority over; direct; command
      2. To adjust to a requirement; regulate:
      3. To hold in restraint; check:
    See also:

    command

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Sentence Examples

  • Which of these two laws will prevail, God only knows.

  • Who really believes that whoever can prevail in war must be right?

  • But as early as 1865, Arminians were welcomed to Congregational fellowship. In the last few decades, with the spread in the community of innovations in doctrinal and critical opinions, a wider diversity of belief has come to prevail, so that " Evangelical," in the popular sense of the term, rather than " Calvinistic," is the epithet more suit able to American Congregational preachers and churches.

  • A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

  • In the region of Galveston, along the northern section of the coast, where southerly or south-easterly winds from the Gulf prevail throughout the year, the climate is warm, moist and equable, but the moisture decreases westward and south-westward, and the equability, partly because of northerly winds during the winter months, decreases in all directions inland.

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