Prevent and Urge

Opposite meaning words

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

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Urge is an antonym for prevent in stop topic.

Urge verb - To try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action.

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Prevent is an antonym for urge in beg topic.

Nearby Words: urged, urging

character	prevent character	urge character
people	prevent people	urge people
event	prevent event	urge event
time	prevent time	urge time
Other words: creation, player, everyone, aliens.

Just to be really cruel to the audience, he makes a long speech before drinking the poison, long enough for the audience of the day to frantically (but silently) urge Juliet to wake up from her drug-induced sleep and prevent the tragedy.

Source: Dramatic Irony
Picard immediately pressured Riker into resisting the urge to use this power, ostensibly to prevent Will from abusing it, and also to win a wager against Q in the hopes of making the God-like being sod off forever.

Source: No Man Should Have This Power

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