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stave off

verb

Definitions

  1. To prevent something from happening

    To prevent something from happening; to obviate or avert.

    • He drank plenty of orange juice, hoping to stave off the cold making the rounds at the office.
    • [Enid] answer'd with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously, […]
    • LANCE: Only through my training as a sex machine am I able to stave off genital turgidity.

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