Synonyms for head off
head off

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1. head offverb

   To intercept.

   The cavalry will head off the bandits at the pass.

   Synonyms:
   cut off

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1. debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward offverb

   prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening

   "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"

   Synonyms:
   forfend, avoid, eliminate, avert, ward off, distract, keep off, bend, suspend, obviate, invalidate, fend off, stave off, block, nullify, debar, exclude, forefend, annul, quash, rid of, parry, bar, turn away, deflect, void

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1. head off

   Synonyms:
   intercept, head, get before

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1. head off

   Synonyms:
   intercept

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1. James Worthy:

   We still have games to play, until you stomp me out, cut my head off, bury me 12 feet under, then I got a chance. So that’s my confidence.

2. Tracey Emin:

   I have always done this, I have always been an advocate of women being able to tell how it feels. If you have been raped you scream your head off and you will be heard, that is what I have been talking about for the last 35 years when I have been making my work. I am really grateful to the Metoo and Times Up movement because women who never had a voice are coming forward and talking, but I have always been an advocate of it and I have always been talking about it.

3. Isaac Asimov:

   You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

4. John McCarthy:

   We cut the head off of the gang by basically getting very lengthy jail sentences for 42 members of the leadership of MS-13.

5. Karen Searle:

   He is accustomed to being touched, so he wouldn't scream his little head off when someone picked him up.