• IPA: /pɹɪˈveɪl/

prevail (prevails, present participle prevailing; past and past participle prevailed)

1. (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.

   Red colour prevails in the Canadian flag.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗:

     , Exodus 17:11

     And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

2. (intransitive) To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.

   In his day and age, such practices prevailed all over Europe.

3. (intransitive) To succeed in persuading or inducing.

   I prevailed on him to wait.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To avail.

• prevalence
• prevalent

• French: dominer, prévaloir, l'emporter
• Italian: prevalere
• Portuguese: prevalecer, predominar
• Russian: восторжествовать
• Spanish: prevalecer, vencer

• French: prédominer, prévaloir
• German: vorherrschen
• Portuguese: prevalecer, predominar
• Russian: преобладать
• Spanish: prevalecer

• French: persuader
• Russian: убеди́ть