Hold off - Crossword Clue

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Hold off.

5 letter answer(s) to hold off

DEFER
  1. hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"
  2. to put off till later
  3. yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure"
DETER
  1. try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage this practice among our youth"
  2. turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"
REPEL
  1. be repellent to; cause aversion in
  2. cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"
  3. fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me"
  4. force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"
  5. reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"
STALL
  1. a booth where articles are displayed for sale
  2. a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed
  3. a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge; "the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it"
  4. a tactic used to mislead or delay
  5. cause an airplane to go into a stall
  6. cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"
  7. come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway"
  8. deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"
  9. experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
  10. postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
  11. put into, or keep in, a stall; "Stall the horse"
  12. seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater
  13. small area set off by walls for special u

15 letter answer(s) to hold off

KEEPATADISTANCE

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Hold off'

Agent the Spanish hold off
Animal compartment
Animals eating dirt ultimately put off
Bathroom division
Big problem for a pilot
Block
Cancel legislation banning a revolt
Carnival booth
Check
Check temperature inside animal
Cleaner to hearten lady? Quite the opposite
Delay as before, making India bat in the middle
Delay beginning to seem unlikely
Delay getting seat in choir
Delay outlet at a fair
Delay sales booth
Delay unbelievable after standing start
Dilly-dally
Discourage
Discourage careful eater, initially itching to quit
Discourage careful eater, second to quit
Discourage fellow taking daughter for piano
Discourage from acting
Discourage, put off
Disgust
Dissuade
Does taking time prevent...
Drag one's feet
Drive away
Drive away partner, initially, during folk dance
Drive back
Drive back from dance, parking inside
Drive back one avoided heading west
Drive back or away
Drive off
Drive off revolting social outcast
Drive off, repulse
Engine problem
Fend off leader of pirates in film
Fill with distaste
Flipping once more given food delay
Foot-drag
Force back
Force back Scots dancing around piano
Freed after treatment put back
Frighten off
Go "pfffft"
Gross out
Half-heartedly ran the match, returning to seek postponement
Hinder
Hold up a market trader's place of work
Hold up one that might be holding horse
Horse's chamber
Howl - American singer flipped over note
Impede
Inhibit
Intimidate
Intimidate crime writer, blowing kiss
Jet engine problem
Keep (from)
Keep off
Market stand
Morse writer denied vote is put off
Obstruct display of goods
Old Bob's lofty hedge

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