stave off vs forbid

stave off and forbid both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stave off	No	No	Yes	No
forbid	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, forbid is a hypernym of stave off; that is, forbid is a word with a broader meaning than stave off:

stave off: prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
forbid: keep from happening or arising; make impossible

Other hypernyms of stave off include foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent.

stave off (verb)	forbid (verb)
prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off	command against
	keep from happening or arising; make impossible