Definitions for prevail

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prevail pre·vail

Spelling: [pri-veyl]

IPA: /prɪˈveɪl/

Prevail is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in prevail (aeilprv).

Definitions for prevail

verb (used without object)

1. to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally:
2. to appear or occur as the more important or frequent feature or element; predominate:
3. to be or prove superior in strength, power, or influence (usually followed by over):
4. to succeed; become dominant; win out:
5. to use persuasion or inducement successfully:

Origin of prevail

1350-1400; Middle English prevayllen to grow very strong Latin praevalēre to be more able, equivalent to prae- pre- + valēre to be strong; see Examples for prevail

These fanatical groups wish to create fundamentalist enclaves in which some version of Sharia law will prevail.

Then shall I prevail upon her, no doubt, if loth before, to fly.

Your efforts will not prevail; for our gates shall for ever deny you admittance.

Lady Booby was going to call her back again, but could not prevail with herself.

I cannot act entirely on my own judgment, but I assure you that in the end my judgment will prevail.

Singer, a formidable Hollywood legal pugilist, said ultimately that “we [he and Travolta] will prevail in this action.”

The natural American impulse is to search for solutions, for policies that can prevail against these upheavals.

It must be a miserable imposture, indeed, that does not prevail in that contest.

As McCain so eloquently stated Monday, we must not “risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.”

Then, a Perry campaign has to prevail in the general election.