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Meaning stave meaning

What does stave mean?

stave

— verb burst or force (a hole) into something — noun one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket — verb furnish with staves stave a ladder — noun (= staff) (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written — noun (= rung) a crosspiece between the legs of a chair

Synonyms stave synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as stave?

stave English » English

staff rod stave in stake spar rung stick stanza shaft round pole lag handle cane bar verse spoke smash shatter plank lath breach batten baton wrest wooden block winding wind wimble wash out violate verticil twiddle turnover turning turn transgress total ticket thrust terebrate tap sting spear snag sliver slate slab billet slab rupture

Topics stave topics

What do people use stave to talk about?
Language and thought Want Ask permission

Prevent

Conjugation stave conjugation

How do you conjugate stave?

stave · verb

Examples stave examples

How do I use stave in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Ain't had so much fun since I slid down Old Smokey on a barrel stave!
A whale can stave in the ribs of the biggest ships. swallow whole crews, pick its teeth with the oars.
With good luck we stave off the wedding, danger persists.
They say tea will stave off hunger, but there was no water in the jungle.
Look at all these people jogging, trying to stave off the inevitable decay ofthe body.
You mean, if the grant figure, which of course we do not yet know, were to be not just less than you told the press was the absolute minimum to stave off disaster but lower than the REAL minimum required to stave off disaster?
But if I could stave things off until the race, I knew all might be well.
It's just. you try to stave off insecurity.
How do you rally the board of directors to your side and stave off impending bankruptcy?
Man has long worked to stave off the disease that can ravage us.
Besides helping stave off the predatory advances of that. woman, she may be able to help me find a way to transfer myself back to Sick Bay.
Medicine will not stave off this disease.
In all honesty, Prue, if it weren't for you, I'm not sure the auction house would've been able to stave off bankruptcy.
Now, stave us off on the starboard!
Stave us off, push hard, push hard!
Look at all these peoplejogging, trying to stave off the inevitable decay ofthe body.
And you ain't gonna find nothing in your pocket that can stave it off!
Nothing can stave it off!
Alar says the additional power would be enough to stave off defeat.
I didn't ask you to train me so I could stave. I already know how to stave.
By honing those skills which make me useful. I stave off my inevitable obsolescence.
You hope his physiology can give you clues to stave off genetic degradation.
Store the one thing that'll stave off perpetual darkness in the home of the people the demon knows.
I didn't ask you to train me so I could stave.
I already know how to stave.
You know, using that part of the brain helps stave off the early onset of Alzheimer's.
We will do our best to stave off their attack, but I'm afraid that defeat is all but inevitable.
In order to stave off decay, we've divided up household chores.
You've been shooting sparks in my top hat, laughing at me all along, while using my money to stave off ruin.
Awkward conversations with middle-aged couples trying to stave off divorce.
We all do crazy things to stave off the loneliness.
All right, men, your mission tonight is to stave off the invading forces of the Tooth Fairy.

News and current affairs

Even China's vast reserves will not be enough to stave off a painful devaluation.
Despite a huge investment of time and energy, he has failed to marshal even his own troops in support of a relatively modest proposal to stave off collapse of the nation's old-age insurance program.
India's ability to stave off the economic gales was helped by the fact that it is much less dependent than most countries on global flows of trade and capital.
Indeed, the Fed's monetary policy has not been sufficient to stave off a US recession, albeit one that remains so mild that many doubt whether it qualifies as the real animal.
So giving democrats such as Obasanjo and Wahid a chance to hold their countries together could stave off immense suffering and may also be a matter of self-interest.
So, even if the Fed and US Treasury now manage to stave off recession, what will fuel future growth?
His efforts were not a complete success, but he managed to stave off the worst outcome.
Faced with a vicious combination of collapsing housing prices and imploding credit markets, the Fed has been aggressively cutting interest rates to try to stave off a recession.
It is a policy that has had success in Japan, where a weaker yen is the only real accomplishment of Abenomics, and in Europe, where a weaker euro is helping to stave off recession.
Preventing the temperature increases that scientists tell us must be avoided to stave off catastrophe requires meaningful measures by key developing countries.
The combination of credits from the other eurozone countries and lending by the IMF may provide enough liquidity to stave off default for a while.
This changed when then-Party leader Jiang Zemin and his prime minister, Zhu Rongji, centralized authority in order to stave off economic crisis at a time of growing risk to China's banks.
The struggle to mold our future, to stave off the humanitarian disasters of war, disease, and starvation leaves little room to be philosophical about our place on this crumb of cosmic dust.
Engaging Iran is also the only way to stave off a nuclear apocalypse in the region.

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