stave off

• Verbo frasal que significa evitar o retrasar algo desagradable o no deseado, alejando una amenaza o peligro.

A phrasal verb meaning to prevent something from happening or to delay something unpleasant.

incontable · transitivo · phrasal, separable

1. Prevent or delayformal

   To prevent something unpleasant from happening or to delay it temporarily.

   Evitar o retrasar

   • He ate an apple to stave off hunger until dinner.
   • The government took measures to stave off an economic crisis.
   • She drank warm tea to stave off the cold.

   Sinónimosavertavoidfend offforestallhold offprecludepreventrepelward off

   Antónimosacceleratecausehasteninduce

Verbo basestave