Usually means: Prevent or delay something undesirable.
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  1. stave off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stave off: Merriam-Webster
  3. stave off: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. stave off: Rhymezone
  9. stave off: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. stave off: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stave off)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To prevent something from happening; to obviate or avert.

Similar:
avoid, fend off, ward off, obviate, avert, debar, deflect, head off, forestall, turn away, more...

Opposite:
succumb, yield, surrender, give in, submit

Types:
avert, prevent, deter, ward off, forestall, more...

Phrases:
to stave her off, more...

Adjectives:
absent, put off, terminated, traverse, quit, term, laid-off, give up, hinder, exempt, mittent

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Similar:
avoid, fend off, ward off, obviate, avert, debar, deflect, head off, forestall, turn away, more...

Opposite:
succumb, yield, surrender, give in, submit

Types:
avert, prevent, deter, ward off, forestall, more...

Phrases:
to stave her off, more...

Adjectives:
absent, put off, terminated, traverse, quit, term, laid-off, give up, hinder, exempt, mittent



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