stave

1. (переходный)To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.

   furnish with staves

2. (переходный, обычно)To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.

   to stave in a cask

   burst or force (a hole) into something

3. (переходный)To push, or keep off, as with a staff.

4. (переходный, обычно)To delay by force or craft; to drive away.

   We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.

5. (устаревшее, диалектное, непереходный)To walk or move rapidly.

6. To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.

7. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

   to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run

8. (архаичное, непереходный, редкое)To burst in pieces by striking against something.

1. Kendo involves dueling between two people who are each equipped with a sword-like stave made of bamboo.

   В кэндо состязаются двое людей, каждый из которых вооружен бамбуковым мечом.

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2. The supple stave slid gracefully through the opening.

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3. I snapped a stave while bell-ringing on Monday.

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4. Give your kids peanuts when they're babies to stave off allergies.

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5. You have to get more exercise in order to stave off senility.

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правильный

• stave offпредотвращатьTo prevent something from happening; to obviate or avert.
• stave inTo stave from the outside, to crush inward, to cause to collapse inward.