stave off

stave off  {v.},  {literary}
To keep from touching or hurting you.
Syn.: 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.
Categories: literary verb

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