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PREVAIL

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prevail verb intranzitiv

1. a predomina, a precumpăni, a donnina, a prevala.

2. a trece peste, a prevala, a învinge.

3. a fi răspândit, a exista (în număr mai mare decât altceva).

4. to prevail over / against a triumfa asupra (cu gen.);

to prevail up(on) a impune o hotărtre (cuiva), a convinge (pe cineva), a îndupleca (pe cineva);

I prevailed on him not to fight l-am convins să nu se bată;

he was prevailed upon by his friends to prietenii săi l-au convins să;

easy to be prevailed upon uşor de convins.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

But Sir John could not prevail.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Well, Mrs. Weston, you have prevailed, I hope, and these ladies will oblige us.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I shut the door after him, that it might cause no disturbance of the quiet that prevailed; and when I turned back, I found Mr. Peggotty still talking to her.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Your sister, perhaps, may be prevailed on to spend the day with us, and I shall certainly be at home.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

He had never before supposed that, could Wickham be prevailed on to marry his daughter, it would be done with so little inconvenience to himself as by the present arrangement.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

My aunt observed this, and when Justine was twelve years of age, prevailed on her mother to allow her to live at our house.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Jo let Laurie win the game to pay for that praise of her Beth, who could not be prevailed upon to play for them after her compliment.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I do, in the next place, complain of my own great want of judgment, in being prevailed upon by the entreaties and false reasoning of you and some others, very much against my own opinion, to suffer my travels to be published.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

It is said that the inn-keeper hath a buried treasure, and I doubt not, my fair lord, that if you grant me leave I could prevail upon him to tell us where he hath hid it.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was an unusual understanding of himself, which was unlike anything I had ever met with in a lunatic; and he took it for granted that his reasons would prevail with others entirely sane.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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