To prevent, hinder, restrain (a person or thing) from action. Const. with clause or infinitive.

transitive. To resist, oppose, withstand. Also occasionally const. infinitive: To prevent from doing something.

transitive. To prevent (a person or thing) from doing something; to stop, to hinder. Frequently with from. Obsolete.

To shut up from a course of action, etc.; to preclude, debar, restrain, ‘estop’. Obsolete.

transitive. To take away, withdraw (something); to cut off, exclude, remove (someone) fro (also from). Also intransitive.

transitive. To restrain; to hold back, check, or stop; to prevent or hinder. Frequently with from.

transitive. With infinitive or that-clause as complement: to keep or forbid (a person) from doing something. Chiefly reflexive. archaic and rare…

transitive. To ban or exclude (a person or thing) from an action or place; to prevent, hinder. Chiefly with from, infinitive (now rare), or †for (obs…

transitive. With person as object. To stop, restrain, or put off from an action or way of acting.

To restrain or prevent (a person) from a contemplated action. Const. as in 20.

In occasional uses: To deprive of; to hinder from; to free from. Obsolete.

transitive. To prevent or try to prevent (an action, practice, behaviour, etc.) by expressing disapproval or creating difficulties; to hinder or…

To debar from a privilege, advantage, dignity, succession, etc.; to prevent from doing something. Also const. infinitive. Obsolete.

transitive. To cut off beforehand, debar, or preclude (a person or other agent) from something; to deprive of a purpose, expectation, etc. Now rare.

To preclude, hinder, or prohibit (a person) from (an action) or to do something; to hinder the action, working, or activity of.

transitive. To shut off from; to preclude or prevent from. Also with away from, off from, up from.

To prevent, hinder, stop (a person or thing) from doing something; to check, restrain. Const. from, †of a course of action, etc.); †to (with…

transitive. To prevent or preclude from being or doing something; to obstruct. Formerly also †intransitive with of and indirect object (obsolete).

To cut off or stop (a person or thing) from accomplishing some purpose; to prevent, stop, hinder. Const. from (infinitive). Now rare or Obsolete.

transitive. To bar (a person) from a goal or purpose; to divert, turn away, or dissuade from; to distract. Obsolete.

figurative. To bar, debar, preclude from. Obsolete. rare.

figurative and in figurative context.

transitive. To stop, keep, or hinder (a person or thing) from doing something. Sometimes with from clause omitted.

transitive †To take effectual precautions against, prevent (danger, an undesirable outcome, etc.); to prevent (a person) from doing something…

figurative. Chiefly to stave off. To keep (a person) from (doing something); to divert from (an object, practice, or course of action). Obsolete.

transitive. In weakened use: to badger (a person) to do something. Also: to distract (a person) from doing something. Obsolete. rare.

To take care to prevent or hinder (a person) from doing something. northern dialect.

transitive. To prevent (a person) from doing something, to thwart, impede, hinder; to frustrate, confound.

Technical uses with adverbs. to stop off = senses 21a 23b 24a. Now rare or Obsolete.

transitive. To jinx; to deter, to hinder.