stave off

• Verbe à particule signifiant éviter ou repousser quelque chose de désagréable, ou retarder un événement indésirable.

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

indénombrable · transitif · phrasal, séparable

1. Prevent or delayformal

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

   Éloigner, repousser (un danger, une menace)

   • 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.

   Synonymesavertavoidfend offforestallhold offprecludepreventrepelward off

   Antonymesacceleratecausehasteninduce

Verbe de basestave