Prevent and Shake

Prevent

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

Usage example: a lot of problems would have been prevented if we'd just prepared better

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

Shake verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.

Usage example: we shook our pursuers by cutting through the abandoned lot

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Prevent and shake are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Prevent" instead a verb "Shake".

Nearby Words: shaky, shaking, shaken, shakedown, shaker

time	prevent time	shake time
world	prevent world	shake world

He shakes LBJ's hand, but refuses to shake the DCI's hand, because the DCI had him kill his mentor to both prevent an international incident and recover a massive sum of money from the Big Bad.

Source: Handshake Refusal
The first season of Hell Girl tries to shake up its formula of every Victim of the Week using the Hell Correspondence to damn both their tormentor and themselves to hell by introducing Hajime, a tabloid reporter who discovers the Hell Correspondence and starts trying to prevent people from using it.

Source: Failure Hero
He shakes LBJ's hand, but refuses to shake the DCI's hand, because it's believed that the DCI had him kill his mentor to both prevent an international incident and recover a massive sum of money from the Big Bad.

Source: Video Game / Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

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