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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91 The beetles arrive in the evening, spend the night feeding and mating, spend the morning recuperating and head off to a new flower later on — complete with pollen from their host.
92 The sheriff said posse could head off the outlaws at the pass.
93 I'll wring his calf's head off his body with these hands.
94 Traders who had bet that the Bank of Canada would raise rates to head off inflation sold the Canadian dollar.
95 More than that, he had snatched the British Far Eastern bases, and was now sucking British units toward India to head off the final rupture of the Empire.
96 After the Shaohsing opera was over, you started snoring your head off!
97 Local kids still head off for school, take shortcuts through restored plazas , and cavort in the playgrounds until it is time to head home for dinner.
98 The finding suggests that if a man has an important day ahead he would be best to head off to the spare room to sleep rather than sharing the marital bed.
99 A cockroach can live several weeks with its head off.
100 Caton said he saw the suspect had the victim on the floor of the bus and "was cutting his head off and pretty much gutting him" with a large hunting knife.
101 Bite a dove's head off ( substitute for any form of fowl ).
102 Tarry with me and I will cut your head off.
103 The broadside on the food industry was taken seriously by the F.D.A. and touched off a scramble by producers to head off regulation[http://sentencedict.com/head off.html], confidential company records and interviews show.
104 I get changed and join the other Extras and we head off to the nail salon.
105 There are still peaceful ways to cut the snakes head off, but you and people like you have so far to go in your education that even bring up things like Nullification would be a waste of time.
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.