Prevent and Tempt

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

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Tempt is an antonym for prevent.

Tempt verb - To lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage.

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Prevent is an antonym for tempt in lure topic.

Nearby Words: tempting, temptation, tempter

humanity	prevent humanity	tempt humanity
character	prevent character	tempt character
people	prevent people	tempt people
someone	prevent someone	tempt someone
Other words: time, characters, father, brother, anyone, player, everyone, humans.

The purpose of the Garden is to enspell its visitors with its intoxicating nature to prevent them from wanting to leave, and eventually tempt them to evil.

Source: Epiphanic Prison
Quote-to-Quote Combat: In Luke 4 Satan tries to tempt Jesus into throwing himself from the highest point in the temple and quotes from the Psalms out of context to suggest that God will prevent Jesus from falling to his death.

Source: Literature / The Four Gospels
The 4th chapter of Matthew and the books of the other apostles that cover the same events lampshade this trope, when Satan tries to tempt Jesus into throwing himself from the highest point in the temple, quoting from the Psalms to suggest that God will prevent Jesus from falling to his death.

Source: As the Good Book Says

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