staved

[US]/steɪv/
[UK]/stev/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a narrow strip of wood; a rung; a line of verse; a musical notation
vt. to break or crush through; to delay; to bore holes in; to crush flat
vi. to break into pieces; to pierce

Phrases & Collocations

stave off

stave in

stave a barrel

stave off hunger

broken stave

barrel stave

stave construction

wooden stave

stave drum

stave church

Example Sentences

to stave off hunger/illness

the door was staved in.

The side of the boat was staved in when it hit the rocks.

desperate attempts to stave off civil war

I bought a pork pie to stave off the munchies.

a reassuring presence can stave off a panic attack.

The boat staved in when it struck the rocks.

I staved off jet lag with a bath and an early night.

she fought to stave off the hot tears scalding her eyes.

The deckhouse has been staved in by the tremendous seas.

The lost camper staved off death from hunger by eating birds eggs.

Or you can use a drawknife to strip the bark and sapwood from each stave (what the bugs love), and seal the back with several coats of shellac.

The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat, tabut hukum Allah dengan kayu-kayu pengusungnya dan tutup pendamaian,

A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the foretop-gallant-shrouds;

Plainchant or plainsong, the traditional monodic chant of the Catholic Church, still uses a four-line stave, and in earlier music the number of lines used varied.

Leaf doors with vertical staves and inner drawer. Structure in oak, top in marble or veener. Can be fixed to the wall or put on the floor with metal feets.

TPCO Iron-making Subsidiary adopts a stoppage method of dropping the stock level with vacant stockline to expose the staves inside the blast furnace in order to replace the damaged ones.

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