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Main Entry:	stave
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	prevent
Synonyms:	anticipate, arrest, avert, avoid, baffle, balk, bar, block, check, chill, cool, cork, counter, counteract, dam, debar, defend against, foil, forbid, forestall, forfend, frustrate, halt, hamper, head off, hinder, hold back, hold off, impede, inhibit, intercept, interdict, interrupt, keep lid on, limit, nip in the bud, obstruct, obviate, preclude, prohibit, put a stop to, put an end to, repress, restrain, restrict, retard, rule out, shut out, stave off, stop, thwart, turn aside, ward, ward off

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	pole
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	bar, post
Synonyms:	beam, extremity, flagpole, flagstaff, leg, mast, pile, plank, rod, shaft, spar, staff, stake, standard, stave, stick, stilt, stud, terminus

Main Entry:	rod
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	bar, pole
Synonyms:	baton, billet, birch, cane, cylinder, dowel, ingot, mace, pin, rodule, scepter, sceptre, shaft, slab, spike, staff, stave, stick, strip, switch, wand

Example Sentences

Newspapers have tried many things to stave off a seemingly relentless decline in readers.

But this might be too late to stave off a fire sale.

Regular meditation may increase smarts and stave off aging, according to an ongoing study.

Newspapers have tried many things to stave off a seemingly relentless decline in readers.

But this might be too late to stave off a fire sale.

Regular meditation may increase smarts and stave off aging, according to an ongoing study.

Researchers stave off premature heart failure in mice with genetic disorder.

Smart choices in the kitchen can help stave off heart disease.

We can either take action and stave off this large-scale disaster, or simply wait for it to happen.

Next come more antiviral pills and antibiotics to stave off infections.

Other vulnerable financial giants scrambled to sell themselves or raise enough capital to stave off a similar fate.

Energy conservation can stave off the day of reckoning, but in the end you can't conserve what you don't have.

Hanna-Pladdy says that music lessons, as with learning a second language, might stave off age-related cognitive decline.

Dining alfresco on the coast usually calls for jackets to stave off the chilly air, especially on shaded patios.

In other words: to stave off another attack, not to initiate a retaliation.

Vietnam's served up a big fiscal stimulus to stave off job losses.

When she was found, she lay in a mysterious fluid, which may have served to further stave off decay.

For half a century, meat producers have fed antibiotics to farm animals to increase their growth and stave off infections.

But such popularity hasn't enabled the original player in the field to stave off bankruptcy.

Economic policy undoubtedly helped to stave off a sharper downturn.

Using search engines may help stave off dementia and memory loss among older people, according to a new report.

Now researchers report that it may help stave off skin cancer, too.

Using energy to stave off entropy is one of the basic functions of life.

Relenza's ability to stave off infection among the elderly has not been established.

New research indicates that an alginate-based biomaterial injected into heart attack victims may stave off further damage.

For years, green tea has been believed by some to lower cholesterol, prevent rheumatoid arthritis and even stave off cancer.

Until recently, he seemed confident that he could stave off an invasion.

Crossword puzzles, book clubs, political debate and physical exercise can all stave off mental decline.

Jorneaux said non-explosive ways can also stave off avalanches.

Privatisation can stave off the decay for the moment while plans for a long term solution is made.

Tiny subconscious eye movements called microsaccades stave off blindness in all of us-and can even betray our hidden desires.

In addition, intelligent people tend to pursue new, stimulating experiences to stave off boredom.

New research shows that eating more of certain foods can stave off hunger pangs and control calories.

Sometimes he bandages a couple of fingers together to stave off carpal tunnel syndrome.

Mature forests in colder climes may continue to store more carbon than they emit, thereby helping to stave off global warming.

Duncan have supported historic increases in school financing to stave off teacher layoffs while seeking to shake up public.

Though there were failures, too, it seemed as if good management could stave off the tragedy.

Pakistan calls on shops to close early and other lifestyle changes in an effort to stave off chronic power outages.

For utilities, these companies monitor peak power and stave off the need for expensive capital upgrades.

The five-year plan is a step that will allow the government to obtain a new round of emergency financing and stave off default.

Already available drugs may stave off and even reverse debilitating symptoms.

In a state hit hard by plummeting revenue, a vote to help stave off deep cuts in education and other services.

Carmakers flooded the market with unprofitable cars in the good times in an effort to stave off the closure of uneconomic.

Mouse model suggests that a combination of therapies may stave off the onset of this neurodegenerative disorder.

The new study suggests that pumping muscles full of nuclei early in life could help stave off muscle loss with age.

Gaston said, less toxic therapies to neutralize excess acid may one day stave off or stop attacks.

The rules against firing that stave off sharp rises in unemployment may mean that fewer jobs are created in new industries.

Europe's leaders believe they can stave off economic disaster without taking real action.

Much of their effort went into maintaining high wages and ameliorating the plight of the unemployed in order to stave off unrest.

We can either take action and stave off this large-scale.

The first priority of the rebels-turned-rulers must be physical security to stave off anarchy and looting.

New research suggests that triggering new nerve cell production in adult brains could stave off short-term forgetfulness.

They were eating cakes made of mud to stave off hunger pain before this started.

Tiny subconscious eye movements called microsaccades stave off blindness in.

It would make more sense, rather than public subsidies to stave off righteous defaults and.

Therefore, once the matches are found, those few cells need to multiply in a hurry to stave off illness.

In the meantime, however, the argument that it can stave off cancer is unsupported.

None of them can permanently stave off the system s inherent tendency to crisis.

The good news is that farming organically is one way to stave off global warming.

Hmmm, these kinds of epidemics are tragic and if people want to try to stave them off in various ways that is their choice.

Main Entry:	slab
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	chunk of solid object
Synonyms:	bar, billet, bit, board, boulder, chip, cut, cutting, hunk, ingot, lump, muck, piece, plate, portion, rod, slice, stave, stick, stone, strip, wedge

Main Entry:	staff
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	stick, usually for walking
Synonyms:	cane, club, pikestaff, pole, prop, rod, stave, walking stick, wand

Main Entry:	stake
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	pole
Synonyms:	pale, paling, picket, post, rod, spike, stave, stick

Main Entry:	stick
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	pole, often wooden
Synonyms:	bar, bat, baton, billet, birch, bludgeon, board, branch, cane, club, cudgel, drumstick, ferrule, ingot, mast, rod, rule, ruler, shoot, slab, slat, staff, stake, stalk, stave, stem, strip, switch, timber, twig, wand, wedge

Main Entry:	support
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	something that holds up structure
Synonyms:	abutment, agency, back, backing, base, bed, bedding, block, brace, buttress, collar, column, cornerstone, device, flotation, foothold, footing, foundation, fulcrum, groundwork, guide, hold, lining, means, medium, pillar, platform, pole, post, prop, rampart, reinforcement, rest, rib, rod, shore, stake, stanchion, stave, stay, stiffener, stilt, substratum, substructure, sustentation, timber, underpinning

Main Entry:	stanza
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	verse
Synonyms:	division, stave, strophe
Notes:	technically, a stanza is a succession of lines that form a poem or song, and a verse is either a single line of writing or a series of lines in a song

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