stave
/steɪv/ verbTranslation
stave sth off phrasal verb
› to stop something bad from happening now although it may happen later
durdurmak, önlemek, önüne geçmek
He had a bar of chocolate to stave off his hunger.1559(Definition of stave verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish
© Cambridge University Press)
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