Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - stave off
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Stave off
stave off
If you stave off something bad, or if you stave it off, you succeed in stopping it happening for a while. In a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, he reluctantly promised wholesale reform of the constitution... But the reality of discovery was a different matter, and he did all he could to stave it off. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
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1.
transitive verb Date: 1611 1. to fend off staving off creditors 2. to ward off (as something adverse) ; forestall trying to ~ disaster ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
1. предотвратить, отвести (опасность) to stave off a defeat —- предотвратить поражение only the sure prospect of relief staved off utter despair —- только твердая надежда на спасение не дала нам впасть в полное отчаяние he tried to stave off increasing stabs of hunger —- он пытался обмануть растущие муки голода 2. отсрочить to stave off old age —- оттянуть наступление старости 3. отбросить; оттеснить ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
3.
{v.}, {literary} To keep from touching or hurting you. Syn.: WARD OFF. * /The white knight struck with his sword. The black knight staved it off with his own sword./ * /Bill's warm new coal staved off the cold./ * /They staved off starvation by eating two of the sled dogs./ ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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