head off
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.37 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We will head off on our holidays tomorrow."
- "The cavalry will head off the bandits at the pass."
- "Spurred by her early successes and lack of reprisal, AB has now gone beyond her original stance against gays as teachers and is now advocating a federal law to outlaw gays […] And she just may succeed if we do not move now in a way that we have never moved, to head her off."
- "The government took steps to head off summertime shortages of gasoline."
- "Theresa May will use a speech to the Scottish Conservative conference on Friday to try to head off growing nationalists’ demands for a second independence referendum."
- "Although the deal, announced hours before the deadline for registering coalitions expired, is intended to head off a split vote and to galvanise leftwing voters against the conservative People’s party (PP), which is leading the polls, there are enduring differences and tensions between Podemos and Sumar."
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
head off at the pass
off-heading
Frequently Paired Words
off-heading