Meanings (ES + gloss)
atajar • evitar • impedir • obviar • prevenir
To prevent something from happening; to obviate or avert.
He drank plenty of orange juice, hoping to stave off the cold making the rounds at the office.
[Enid] answer'd with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously, […]
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