Jail and Prevent

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Jail verb - To put in or as if in prison.

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

Nearby Words: jailed, jailer, jailing, jailor

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

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

Great Escape: After Tin Star puts Snake Oil in jail, he has to prevent the Black Oil Gang from blowing up the jail and breaking him out.

Source: Video Game / Tin Star
After this his lawyer notes how effective it was by making him a "hero" in public opinion and to prevent from making him a "martyr" they won't send him to jail for contempt.

Source: Film / The Majestic
He tries to prevent Lincoln's assassination and ends up in jail for acting "drunk" (until he is bailed out by John Wilkes Booth, who believes his story).

Source: Cassandra Truth / Live-Action TV

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