warding off's Usage Examples:

1984 and won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, warding off a furious last-minute challenge from the home-crowd favourites, the team.

Nuriel is also effective as a charm for warding off evil.

Sussex, England and continues to hold great superstition with regard to warding off evil spirits in the English counties of East Sussex and West Sussex.

Silvanus is described as the divinity protecting the flocks of cattle, warding off wolves, and promoting their fertility.

It is most known for fighting and warding off aswangs and other similar mythical creatures in Philippine folklore.

evolved for every stage of this struggle, namely by avoiding detection, warding off attack, fighting back, or escaping when caught.

During a relatively peaceful reign Abdallah succeeded in warding off both the Spanish and the Turks and in consolidating the sovereignty of.

The name Mag-Dhog means warding off the war and the monastery was dedicated for world peace.

of the Secundra Bagh at Lucknow, in saving the life of Captain Irby, warding off with his firelock a tulwar cut made at his head by a sepoy, and in going.

CACs have become much more common, as they are now seen as potentially warding off more drastic action, but enabling easier coordination of bondholders.

Ultimately, these actions can serve the purpose of warding off predators by causing pain (e.

This has two known purposes: warding off predators from the frog as well as their young (the male performs this.

The red packet is also called “money warding off old age” (壓歲錢; yāsuì qián) for Chinese New Year.

player tries to reach the top of the mountain while solving puzzles and warding off enemies.

Rogers was twice appointed Governor of the Bahamas, where he succeeded in warding off threats from the Spanish, and in ridding the colony of pirates.

schools and huddled in the same filthy rooms – without heat – warding off the cold and warding off the rats.

Originally, this hokura (shrine) was told to be bringing benefit by warding off rats, but starting in the Shōwa and Heisei periods when anti-rat measures.

In this book, a few of Pippi's newer experiences include her warding off a snobbish, portly tourist who believes Villa Villekulla, her home, to.

eye or the number five in Arabic (and Berber) tradition are related to warding off the evil eye, as exemplified in the saying khamsa fi ainek ("five [fingers].

Synonyms:

Manhattan;

Antonyms:

deactivation; finish; end; ending;