stave off vs foreclose

stave off and foreclose both are verbs.

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

As verbs, foreclose is a hypernym of stave off; that is, foreclose 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
foreclose: keep from happening or arising; make impossible

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

stave off (verb)	foreclose (verb)
prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off	subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage
	keep from happening or arising; make impossible