stave off
[verb]
Synonyms: fend, hold off, keep off, rebuff, rebut, repel, repulse, ward (off), prevent, avert, deter, forestall, forfend, obviate, preclude, rule out, ward

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Related Words: beat off, drive (off), fight (off), block, parry

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

stave something ↔ off phrasal verb (past tense and past participle staved) (see also stave)
to keep someone or something from reaching you or affecting you for a period of time:
She brought some fruit on the journey to stave off hunger.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

stave off
stave off (something)
to keep something away or keep something from happening.
The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates to boost the economy and stave off a recession.

Death is natural and inevitable — we can't stave it off forever.

Related vocabulary: ward off someone/something, fend off something

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

stave off something
stave off (something)
to keep something away or keep something from happening.
The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates to boost the economy and stave off a recession.

Death is natural and inevitable — we can't stave it off forever.

Related vocabulary: ward off someone/something, fend off something

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

stave off
v., literary To keep from touching or hurting you.
Synonym: WARD OFF.
The white knight struck with his sword. The black knight staved it off with his own sword.
Bill's warm new coal staved off the cold.
They staved off starvation by eating two of the sled dogs.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲