Staving is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STAVING 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.
• A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.

Words related to STAVING

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How to use STAVING in a sentence

• The responsibility of rejecting a conference, which, by staving off the evil day, might have preserved the peace of Europe, falls solely on the shoulders of Germany.
• As for getting any more of the income, in time to be of any use in staving off the tidal wave of ruin that rose against him, there was no chance of that.
• She did not allow herself to think, and she succeeded in staving off silence.
• More than that, it made war upon the only organizations which were staving off famine and making it possible for the nation to endure.
• The former were used for preventing narrow ways from staving in, and the latter were to face sand-bag walls.
• She rained blow upon blow in a sort of spasm of frenzy, scarce remembering that her object was merely to wake her lodger, and almost staving in the lower panels with her kicks.
• He passes his existence, however, staving off insidious questions.
• At home, by Gad, I could afford to spend the wuth of a staving field hand every twenty-fouah houahs.
• One large and scientifically managed plant has made remarkable provisions for staving off the time when the dead line is reached.
• We know the right remedy for at least staving off the impending universal crisis lies in the manifold opportunities of creating outlets.

Similar words containing STAV without suffix ing

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