stave

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

   furnish with staves

2. (перехідне, зазвичай)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. (перехідне)To push, or keep off, as with a staff.

4. (перехідне, зазвичай)To delay by force or craft; to drive away.

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

5. (застаріле, діалектне, неперехідне)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. (архаїчне, неперехідне, рідковживане)To burst in pieces by striking against something.

1. The supple stave slid gracefully through the opening.

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

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

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

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5. A win tonight is vital to stave off the threat of relegation.

   deEin Sieg heute Abend ist wichtig, um den drohenden Abstieg abzuwenden.

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правильне

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