head off's Usage Examples:

the opponent in the arm, but Agamemnon struck back and chopped Coon's head off.

In this episode, Michael and Jim head off to a meeting and Michael comes back soaked after having fallen in a koi.

The rider can head off in an easterly or westerly direction.

In it, there is a man shooting the head off a bumblebee in flight, and Big Foot, alluding to the apocryphal nature.

As he leaped out the door, he knocked the top of his own head off on the lintel.

In the episode, Bart cuts the head off the statue of Jebediah Springfield in the center of town to impress Jimbo.

manipulated by the players, and the game is won when one player knocks the head off of the opponent.

Itchy gives him a graduation present, a bomb, which blows Scratchy's head off.

Oxyrhynchus took Colluthus out of prison, tortured him, and eventually cut his head off on 25 Pashons.

or is rolling or skidding across the turf) the fielder will attempt to head off, pick up and throw in the ball as quickly as possible to reduce the distance.

When Hymir refuses to provide Thor with bait, Thor strikes the head off Hymir's largest ox to use it.

the site of the January 20, 1982 concert in which Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat.

Meanwhile, several castaways head off to rescue Michael's son, Walt, from the Others.

They have to find a chicken, hit it with a sickle, and cut its head off.

1981, after signing his first solo career record deal, Osbourne bit the head off a dove during a meeting with CBS Records executives in Los Angeles.

to seek advice from AEMO on extending the life of a number of them, to head off future power shortages.

The Rise and Fall of Prince, Rogers thought Prince "was going to rip my head off" for the mistake.

Synonyms:

preclude; foreclose; prevent; avoid; ward off; fend off; forestall; obviate; avert; debar; deflect; forfend; forefend; forbid; stave off;

Antonyms:

necessitate; attack; admit; let; confront;