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How to pronounce “prevail”
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Pronunciation guide for prevail
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of prevail with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Persuadable
actually makes it more likely that the best ideas prevail.
- Definition summary
- (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.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce prevail
Persuadable

actually makes it more likely that the best ideas prevail.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “prevail”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (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.
- (intransitive) To triumph; to be victorious.
- (intransitive) To be current, widespread, or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
- (intransitive) To succeed in persuading or inducing.
- (transitive, obsolete) To avail.
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