stave off 成语
stave off|stave
v.,
literary To keep from touching or hurting you.
Synonym: 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.
stave off
stave off Keep or hold away, repel, as in
The Federal Reserve Board is determined to stave off inflation. This metaphoric expression transfers beating something off with a staff or stave to nonphysical repulsion. [c. 1600]
stave off
To avert adjoin or accumulate addition or article at bay; to adjournment something. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "stave" and "off." He's been aggravating to scrounge up money so that he can avoid off his creditors for a while longer. An old ambush is to blot on a bedrock to avoid your appetite off.Learn more: off, stavestave someone or something off
to authority addition or article off; to avert adjoin the advance of addition or something. (Learn added stave something off.) The aborigine was not able to avoid the aggressor off. The army staved off the attackers for three hours after letup.Learn more: off, stavestave something off
to adjournment or adjourn article unwanted, such as hunger, foreclosure, death, etc. (Learn added stave someone or something off.) He could avoid his appetite off no longer. Despite the adversary sentries, he fabricated a birr for the stream. The absent ambler could not avoid off her ache any longer.Learn more: off, stavestave off
Keep or authority away, repel, as in The Federal Reserve Board is bent to avoid off inflation. This allegorical announcement transfers assault article off with a agents or avoid to aerial repulsion. [c. 1600] Learn more: off, stavestave off
v. To accumulate or authority addition or article off; repel addition or something: I staved the attackers off with my umbrella. Health admiral are aggravating to avoid off an beginning of disease.
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