Fight and Prevent

Fight

Fight verb - To oppose (someone) in physical conflict.

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Prevent and fight are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Prevent" instead a verb "Fight".

Nearby Words: fighting, fighter

Prevent verb - To keep from happening by taking action in advance.

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Fight and prevent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fight" instead a verb "Prevent".

fire	fight fire	prevent fire
people	fight people	prevent people
someone	fight someone	prevent someone
army	fight army	prevent army
Other words: future, time, characters, bad, invasion, war, anyone, enemy, enemies, aliens, wars, heroes, villains.

This leads to practitioner duels usually taking the form of attempts to either conserve strength for the third fight or prevent the third fight from happening, with the first two battles being irrelevant except as preparation for the third.

Source: Third Time's the Charm
The "Boss Boss" trophy, for example, requires one to defeat a quartet of specific bosses under conditions that both ramp up the difficulty of the fight and prevent you from gaining special bonus treasures they might drop.

Source: Cosmetic Award
Upon returning to the past, they are able to fight fate and prevent the events of the future (seeing which prompted them to try to prevent the events of the future in the first place) from occurring.

Source: Time Travel

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