Definition of "prevailed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of prevail. (verb)

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• "The name Palaestina, translated into Arabic as Filistin, survived the seventh-century Arab conquest, and the name prevailed even as the borders of the region have fluctuated through the centuries."
• "In England, where a different pronunciation of the Latin word prevailed, such confusion would be apt to occur; and hence, probably, English teachers substituted _and_ for _et_; from which, in course of time, the other corruptions mentioned by MR. LOWER were developed."
• "I'm glad to see something I believed in prevailed, after the big blow I was dealt in Massachusetts."