Similar words: leave off, have on, give off, leave out, approve of, irrespective of, state of the art, state of affairs. Meaning: v. prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening.
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1 I will do my best to stave off his participation.
2 In a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, he reluctantly promised wholesale reform of the constitution.
3 She brought some fruit on the journey to stave off hunger .
4 We were hoping to stave off these difficult decisions until September.
5 The company managed to stave off bankruptcy for another few months.
6 There was always the real ale to stave off the effects of ageing for a while.
7 These were noises to stave off the silence into which misery might seep,(www.Sentencedict.com) noises to throw against the hardness of life.
8 The city has been just as quick to stave off potential security problems at its rock-walled transit center.
9 Bank makes last effort to stave off interest rise. 11.00am: Pound at 2.7790.
10 Though Saskia musters all her forces to stave off adolescence, hormones are against her.
11 To stave off the pangs and cool the tongue, tapas are eaten and La Ina is drunk.
12 This could help stave off a damaging rise in interest rates.
13 Mr Gusinsky is seeking foreign investors to stave off Gazprom's grab.
14 Media support organisations and Western governments have helped stave off the worst.
15 The two-year subsidy is intended to stave off colliery closures until after the general election.
16 Nicklaus, who was paired with Floyd, also putted fairly well(sentencedict.com), holing six birdies to stave off two bogeys.
17 Somehow, we drew strength from each other, enough to stave off death for a little while longer.
18 Parts of the grandiose Stalin-era building were sold to casino owners to raise money to stave off closure.
19 I kept incredulously ordering more drinks, in a doomed bid to stave off this conclusion.
20 Even if the company wins the order, however, it will be too late to stave off 300 redundancies.
21 Mr Karimov knows that he will stand or fall on his ability to stave off economic collapse.
22 Otton hitched on to this ride and had so much fun that he managed to stave off the customary platoon with Kyle Wachholtz.
23 Whitehall had no idea where to find the professionals who would stave off the imminent cultural vandalism of television.
24 And how many more will the Pentagon sacrifice to stave off further criticism of its gender policies?
25 Some people carry a ten dollar bill, to keep the potential mugger happy and stave off an angry attack.
26 His ambition was to eat as little as possible, and in this way to stave off his hunger.
27 They are constantly changing their numbers, or going ex-directory to stave off threatening calls.
28 The catch was welcome, but more to vary our diet than stave off hunger.
29 The question humankind must ask is whether the balancing act the president suggests is enough to stave off global devastation.
30 To cope with this, the manager has to try and stave off time pressures without losing the momentum of gaining popularity.
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