Antonyms for stave
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1. staveverb

   Antonyms:
   attract, court, draw, invoke, provoke

   Synonyms:
   parry, fend, forefend

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

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1. staff, stavenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   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, 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

4. staveverb

   furnish with staves

   "stave a ladder"

   Synonyms:
   stave in

5. stave, stave inverb

   burst or force (a hole) into something

   Synonyms:
   stave in

How to use stave in a sentence?

1. Jonah Blank:

   Iran backs Shi’a groups and Saudi Arabia backs ones that adhere to Saudi Arabia own strain of Sunni Muslims doctrine, iran sees this as a largely defensive operation – protecting co-religionists against a violent onslaught that the Pakistan state is unwilling or unable to stave off.

2. Dana Varble:

   Too often, pet owners think their dogs are just' slowing down' and don't realize there are things they can do to ease, slow or even stave off cognitive decline as dogs age, studies show that mental activity and exercise are important for a dog's mental well-being just as it is in humans. Stimulating the brain is important and this can be done easily with food puzzles for example.

3. 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.

4. Ed Quinto:

   It was raining the whole time, but we were able to stave off hypothermia, the trail back to the road is only 5 feet wide, so flying him was the fastest way to take the patient to the hospital without causing further injury.

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.

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