Staved is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STAVED in dictionary:

VERB:
• STAVE, to drive or thrust away
• break something by forcing it inwards or piercing it roughly
• avert or delay something bad or dangerous
NOUN:
• a vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure.
• any of the lengths of wood fixed side by side to make a barrel, bucket, or other container.
• a strong wooden stick or iron pole used as a weapon.
• a set of five parallel lines on any one or between any adjacent two of which a note is written to indicate its pitch.
• a verse or stanza of a poem.

Words related to STAVED

stave8 staves9 staving11 stove8

How to use STAVED in a sentence

• He refused the aid of the only man who could have staved off the violence of factions, and brought reason and talent to the support of reform and law.
• Many of the boats were staved and rendered useless, and several chargers drowned.
• At last, in extreme want of food, and lacking even bread, they staved off hunger with a little pottage.
• After a brief challenge to its other crucial attribute, that of being the only English-language daily, from Goa Monitor in the late 1960s, NT had just staved off another.
• But there was light still in the room, a red light that staved off the shadows from me.
• The long boat of the vessel, which had I suppose, taken ground here, being staved and swamped by the surf, was close beyond, near which I observed the bodies of several other men.
• One case rolled overboard, and the side of one of the water-barrels was staved in, so that the water which it contained was rapidly escaping.
• The way in which the other characters staved off his piping was beyond all praise.
• In those few seconds the assailants meant to bound across the short intervening space, and come to close grips with the enemy who had staved them off all day and half the night.
• Singer stays down-town for dinner at the Delmonico Hotel until the Singer house management is staved off the rocks again.
• It was doubtful, too, if compensation would have staved off the ruin of the planters.
• But the Welsh folk said that not Odin but the White Christ had taken the man who had been a father to them, and had staved off the worst of the famine from them.
• Owing to their long stay on shore, the admiral began to suspect that his people were detained, or their boat had been staved on the rocks.
• The wounded men swam off to the ships, as the Indians had staved their long-boat, and all of them died save one.
• And every effort is strained, the habit of life broken, other matters forgotten and neglected, that death may be staved off, and life wooed to stay.
• That canoe may have sunk on river-bottom rocks, and she may be badly staved by this time.
• If that could be staved off by waiting for the bazaar, or by any other means, there might be a chance of something better.
• Grindstone, whose care I must say has been devoted, has hitherto staved off the sad question from poor young Mrs.
• Their rotten boat, staved in, had gone to the bottom of the Seine.

Similar words containing STAV without suffix ed

stave8 staves9 staving11 distaves12 palstave13 palstaves14 stavudine13 tipstaves14 cowlstaves18 devastavit17 flagstaves17 handstaves17 pikestaves19 stavesacre15 stavudines14 jackstaves26 devastavits18 stavesacres16 quarterstaves25

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