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head off
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head offverb
To intercept.
The cavalry will head off the bandits at the pass.
Synonyms:
cut off
Princeton's WordNet
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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Dictionary of English Synonymes
head off
Synonyms:
intercept, head, get before
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
head off
Synonyms:
intercept
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1042 | bar | |
#1662 | block | |
#2215 | avoid | |
#2448 | void | |
#5808 | eliminate | |
#6377 | exclude | |
#6506 | bend | |
#13027 | suspend | |
#21866 | parry | |
#30316 | distract | |
#30654 | avert | |
#34032 | invalidate | |
#44754 | deflect | |
#65899 | nullify | |
#66240 | quash | |
#79750 | obviate | |
#80071 | annul | |
#145048 | debar | |
#332329 | forfend |
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I remember being with a bunch of senior leaders in November, screaming my head off about the price of gas in November and being patted on my head and saying like,' Don't worry, we got to get through Christmas and it'll be better in 2022,' i don't think that we have a great sense of where this is going.
We came in with the mindset that we had to defend, we had to cut the head off the snake, and that's Harden, and then just try to defend everyone else at the same time, and we did that.
One time he warned me that sometimes at night he couldn't sleep and would walk around with his gun, i told him that was fine as long as you don't shoot my head off.
When they scream and curse at me, it takes my head off the game, its very annoying because if Jay Paris tells you to do something and the parents telling you to do something different, youre like, What should I do ?
They're going to file their appeals, criminal defendants always do, but it was a pretty clean case in my book, what you want as a criminal defense attorney, especially when you're representing a defendant who is arguably less culpable, and Bryan was arguably less culpable, is to sever him or her from the other defendants, because it's arguably prejudicial to be tried with Travis McMichael, who pulled the trigger, or Gregory, who said, ‘I’m going to blow your f------ head off,'.
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