Similar words: ahead of, head office, ahead of time, ahead of schedule, head on, instead of, a load of, head. Meaning: v. prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening.
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61 Before he could head off for the dustbin, Elinor gripped his wrist firmly.
62 The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates many times to head off inflation and quality portfolios have not been damaged.
63 To head off competition, the telcos have invested heavily in fiber optics and sophisticated switching technology.
64 If I ever get you alone, I am going to blow your head off.
65 Kissinger made one last attempt to head off the Jackson-Vanik amendment.
66 Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off. Terry Pratchett 
67 He had his friend grab the dead man by the hair and raise the gory head off the ground, brains dripping.
68 They agreed to meet government ministers in an attempt to head off a major conflict.
69 Then he saw himself tripping over the gun and blowing his head off.
70 Old Warleigh would laugh his head off if I put reasons like that to him.
71 You could trust him not to take the mickey, or to turn round and bite your head off.
72 Then he tips her down and she's screaming her head off.
73 We managed to head off a financial crisis last year,[sentencedict.com] but we may not be so lucky this year.
74 For instance, the animal is coming after you with the idea of tearing your head off.
75 He wrenched the fowl's head off.
76 He slurred over the details to head off disagreement.
77 Now get going before I blow your head off.
78 Jack landed in a crouch in front of a startled gunman. The man raised the Uzi and Jack fired, blowing the top of his head off.
79 The lunches work especially well because assistants are hardly invited to special meals but often watch their bosses head off to a fancy business lunch.
80 The greased lightning of yours nearly blew my head off.
81 To head off anglo-french military action,(Sentencedict.com ) Eisenhower and his secretary of state ensnared the Europeans in a fruitless round of talks and conferences.
82 So how could I dare to be so dissatisfied as to head off on such a selfish and self-seeking whim?
83 Yesterday a 15-foot rattler came at me, so I grabbed it, bit its head off, and spit the poison into a spittoon 15 yards away.
84 Outgassing is one of the "dangerous anthropogenic warming" effects that the Copenhagen summit is trying to head off.
85 The sheriff said that the posse could head off the outlaws at the pass.
86 And she's married to the Prince of Darkness. He bit the head off of a live bat, for God's sake.
87 She is just Euryale! After a long furious battle, finally Kratos defeats Euryale by cutting the head off the creature, similar to how he killed her sister Medusa .
88 I'll find him to the ends of the earth and then knock his head off.
89 Up in the stands , off by himself , he was playing the trombone - playing his head off.
90 The actor shaved his head off in order to portray a bald man.
More similar words: ahead of, head office, ahead of time, ahead of schedule, head on, instead of, a load of, head, spread out, head for, head up, spread over, get ahead, forehead, go ahead, headline, headfirst, headquarters, ado, do for, shadow, adopt, fend off, kind of, paradox, get rid of, demand of, get hold of, round off, polka dot.