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stove off

stove off is the simple past and past participle of stave off.

Meaning of stave off

Verb

stave off (third-person singular simple present staves off, present participle staving off, simple past and past participle staved off or stove off)

  1. (idiomatic) 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.

Questions about stove off

What is stove off the simple past and past participle of?
Stove off is the simple past and past participle of stave off.

Words near stove off in the dictionary

  1. Stovall
  2. Stovalls
  3. stove
  4. stove enamel
  5. stove in
  6. stove off
  7. stove polish
  8. stove polishes
  9. stove up
  10. stove-pipe-hatted
  11. stove-top

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stove off (page history and authors); stave off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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