Synonyms for STAVE
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1. staveverb

   Synonyms:
   parry, fend, forefend

   Antonyms:
   attract, court, draw, invoke, provoke

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1. staff, stavenoun

   (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

   Synonyms:
   stave, round, staff, rung, faculty, lag

2. stave, lagnoun

   one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

   Synonyms:
   rung, meantime, round, interim, slowdown, meanwhile, staff, lag, stave, retardation

3. rung, round, staveverb

   a crosspiece between the legs of a chair

   Synonyms:
   turn, lag, beat, rung, round of drinks, unit of ammunition, daily round, round, circle, rhythm, one shot, round of golf, cycle, troll, spoke, rundle, staff, bout, stave

4. staveverb

   furnish with staves

   "stave a ladder"

   Synonyms:
   stave in

5. stave, stave inverb

   burst or force (a hole) into something

   Synonyms:
   stave, stave in

Matched Categories

1. • Burst
   • Equip
   • Music
   • Musical Notation
   • Slat

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1. stavenoun

   Synonyms:
   stanza, verse, staff

2. staveverb

   Synonyms:
   burst, break a hole in, stave in

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1. Thomas Sedlak:

   For people predisposed to heart disease, we know that changes in diet and exercise can help stave off the disease, but there isn’t anything like that for severe mental disorders yet.

2. Jeffrey Lee:

   I think it's a way to stave off a sense of panic or too much alarm, knowing that there are things we can do is powerful for people in church or out of church.

3. Viveca Novak:

   Google's big spending in Washington could be meant in part to rally Congress and the White House to come to its defense in the face of the EU's antitrust case against the company, it needs allies, the more prominent the better -- and it also wants to stave off any similar government inquiries stateside.

4. Nile Gardiner:

   Airstrikes are only a limited means of warfare -- eventually you are going to need, I believe, a U.S. ground presence in order to defeat ISIS, airstrikes are very limited in their capacity … in order to stave off the ISIS threat; we have to have a strategy for victory, not containment.

5. Yoon Tae-ho:

   There has been a stagnating trend in Daegu cases despite a slight increase today, the situation happening in the Seoul metropolitan area is unlikely to lead to that of the Daegu region ... but we will make maximum efforts to stave off further spread.