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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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stave off

Part of Speechverb

To prevent something from happening; to obviate or avert

In a Sentence

“He drank plenty of orange juice, hoping to stave off the cold making the rounds at the office.”

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Related Words

avertobviateward offavoiddebarhead offdeflectfend off

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