How to pronounce “ward off”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To parry, or turn aside.
• (lacrosse) To, while in possession of the ball, move the free hand or the hand and arm holding the butt end of the stick laterally into a defending player's body or stick.
• (transitive) To avert or prevent.

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