Significados de prevent egress en inglés

The swollen stream will prevent egress from the valley till it subsides.

They were so arranged as to prevent egress from the park.

STRANGER: As to the first kind-allthat surrounds and encloses anything to prevent egress, may be rightly called an enclosure.

She promised me, insolently enough, to bolt the door outside to prevent egress, and I, to prevent ingress, locked it within.

It was decided to sink the collier Merrimac at a narrow point in the channel, where, lying full length, she would completely prevent egress.