Usually means: Prevent occurrence by early action.
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  1. head off: Merriam-Webster
  2. head off: Collins English Dictionary
  3. head off: Vocabulary.com
  4. head-off: Wordnik
  5. head off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. head off: Wiktionary
  7. head off: Dictionary.com
  8. Head Off: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. head off: Rhymezone
  10. head off: FreeDictionary.org
  11. head off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. head off: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. head off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. head off: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. head off: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. head off: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. head off: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. head off: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (head off)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To begin moving away.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To intercept.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To avoid the undesirable consequences of; to prevent.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To start out.
▸ verb:  (nautical) To turn away from the wind.

Similar:
ward off, debar, stave off, fend off, avoid, obviate, avert, deflect, head out, get away, more...

Opposite:
attach, join, connect, unite, combine

Types:
decapitate, sever, behead, decollate, more...

Phrases:
bite head off, bit head off, bite someone's head off, bite someones head off, bites head off, more...

Adjectives:
off, away, put off, cut out, runaway, alight, offn, clear, gone, quit, out

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Similar:
ward off, debar, stave off, fend off, avoid, obviate, avert, deflect, head out, get away, more...

Opposite:
attach, join, connect, unite, combine

Types:
decapitate, sever, behead, decollate, more...

Phrases:
bite head off, bit head off, bite someone's head off, bite someones head off, bites head off, biting head off, bitten head off, head off at the pass, like a chicken with its head cut off, snap head off, more...

Adjectives:
off, away, put off, cut out, runaway, alight, offn, clear, gone, quit, out



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