verb
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to keep from occurring; to avert; to prevent; to hold back from action.
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to stand against; to resist; to oppose.
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to remove, expel, drive out by force.
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to postpone or delay; to keep (something) pending; to waste one's time.
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to refuse to accept or support; to deny the validity or authority of (a belief, a treaty, etc.); to deny the truth of (a charge, etc.); to repudiate.
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to do away with; to wipe out; to abolish, withdraw, etc.; to cancel.
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to put off (fire, lamp, etc.); to quench; to extinguish.