Answer to "Forestall, with "off"" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word STAVE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2015.

Forestall, with "off" crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
STAVE	83 %	5
FEND	17 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Forestall, with "off"

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• stave
• fend
• avert
• deter
• fear
• prevent
• stall
• beat
• preempt
• stalls
• anticipate
• forerun

Crossword Answer definitions

STAVE noun

1. One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
2. One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
3. A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
4. The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
5. A staff or walking stick.
6. A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.

STAVE verb

1. To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
2. (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
3. (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
4. (usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
5. (rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
6. To walk or move rapidly.
7. To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
8. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result STAVE

• Barrel part
• Cask part
• Cooper's part
• __ off (repel)
• Barrel strip
• Cooper's piece
• Poetry stanza
• Fend (off)
• Cooper's board
• Avert, with "off"

More clues leading to the result FEND

• __ off (resist)
• Try to resist
• Ward off
• Repel, with "off"
• Ward (off)
• Forestall, with "off"
• Provide, as for oneself
• Stave (off)
• ___ off (repel)
• ___ off (parry)