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Successfully persuade or influence, as in They prevailed on me to speak at their annual luncheon . This term uses prevail in the sense of “exert superior force.” It replaced prevail with in the mid-1600s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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