All ward off synonyms

verb ward off

• obviate — to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
• housed — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
• backtalk — an impudent response; impudence.
• forfend — to defend, secure, or protect.
• cover all bases — take full precautions
• evert — Turn (a structure or organ) outward or inside out.
• nix — nothing.
• negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
• haven — a harbor or port.
• beat back — to force to retreat; drive back
• intermitted — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
• hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
• everted — Simple past tense and past participle of evert.
• avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
• corking — excellent
• estop — Bar or preclude by estoppel.
• look after — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
• fly in the face of — to move through the air using wings.
• lay low — situated, placed, or occurring not far above the ground, floor, or base: a low shelf.
• knock down — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
• chambered — having a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
• garrison — William Lloyd, 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
• garrisoned — a body of troops stationed in a fortified place.
• exclude — Deny (someone) access to or bar (someone) from a place, group, or privilege.
• chambering — a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom: She retired to her chamber.
• intermitting — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• garrisoning — Present participle of garrison.
• give the slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
• disconfirming — Not confirming.
• hold over — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• ward — (Aaron) Montgomery, 1843–1913, U.S. merchant and mail-order retailer.
• detour — If you make a detour on a journey, you go by a route which is not the shortest way, because you want to avoid something such as a traffic jam, or because there is something you want to do on the way.
• choke off — To choke off financial growth means to restrict or control the rate at which a country's economy can grow.
• heave ho — an act or effort of heaving.
• beat off — to drive back; repel
• dueling — Present participle of duel.
• duelling — a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.
• get around — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• disconfirm — to prove to be invalid.
• cork — Cork is a soft, light substance which forms the bark of a type of Mediterranean tree.
• detouring — Present participle of detour.
• queer — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
• corked — (of a wine) tainted through having a cork containing excess tannin
• heave-ho — an act of rejection, dismissal, or forcible ejection: The bartender gave the noisy drunk the old heave-ho.
• nixing — nothing.
• lock out — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
• fight back — retaliate