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語源

From 中期英語 prevailen, from Old French prevaler, from Latin praevaleō (“be very able or more able, be superior, prevail”), from prae (“before”) + valeō (“be able or powerful”). Displaced native 古期英語 rīcsian.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /pɹɪˈveɪl/
• (General Australian) IPA: /pɹɪˈvæɪl/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /pɹəˈvæɪl/
• ハイフネーション: pre‧vail
• 韻: -eɪl

動詞

prevail (third-person singular simple present prevails, present participle prevailing, simple past and past participle prevailed)

1. (intransitive) To be superior in strength, dominance, influence, or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.

   Red colour prevails in the Canadian flag.

   Sunny skies will prevail across the Northeast.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 17:11:

     And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

   • 2022 February 27, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-0 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Liverpool created a host of chances and had a Joel Matip goal ruled out for a foul and offside in an incident-packed game that went right down to the wire before Jurgen Klopp's side prevailed.

2. (intransitive) To triumph; to be victorious.
   • 2019 January 14, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-2935 - O, Death” (0:36 from the start), in The Exploring Series‎, archived from the original on 25 March 2023:

     There are a number of SCPs and tales that look at potential apocalypses, but rarely with such totality as SCP-2935, a parallel dimension in which death prevailed.

   • 2023 July 19, Nick Paton Walsh and Katharina Krebs, “MI6 chief makes open plea to Russians to spy for UK”, in CNN‎:

     Zakharova also made light of Moore’s claims that Russia will not be able to regain momentum in the war after the MI6 chief said he was”optimistic” Ukraine would prevail against the Russian invasion.

3. (intransitive) To be current, widespread, or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.

   In his day and age, such practices prevailed all over Europe.

4. (intransitive, often with upon or on) To succeed in persuading or inducing.

   I prevailed on him to wait.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

     Jones began to be very importunate with the lady to unmask; and at length having prevailed, there appeared not Mrs Fitzpatrick, but the Lady Bellaston herself.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To avail.

派生語

関連する語

• prevalence
• prevalent

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “prevail”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “prevail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• pervial