head sth ↔ off

head sth ↔ off to prevent something from happening, especially something bad阻止某事，防止某事发生:•The President intervened to head off the conflict.总统出面阻止冲突发生。

• cystometer
• hot stove league
• bannings
• depart from
• stinking
• barn owl
• put the screw to/on
• labor-delivery-recovery
• drinkeries
• curtain track
• flared
• amtman
• Royce, Josiah
• petrificant
• rhizocarpous
• hemimorphy
• have a card up one’s sleeve
• demythification
• air tunnel
• revivingly
• cudgel one's brains
• unconditionalness
• have a taste (of sth)
• mantling
• probest
• Anatidae
• irate
• goblinized
• newsreel
• objectify
• nephrogenic cord
• lamanites
• demises
• reconciliations
• blood royal
• S.Dak.
• mistless
• draw up
• invalidated
• trillionth
• plastic bullet
• disorder
• stagnant ice
• twos
• moth-eaten
• be stretching it
• sisses
• skid
• country / farming etc folk
• tuilles
• sri
• tercentenary
• phase modulation
• sharp frost
• typiest
• reformism
• starve for
• glammed
• feuders
• Pont I'Eveque
• double features
• blockbusting
• bead tree
• quahog
• dihydrochlorothiazide
• live to regret something
• galvanometer recorder
• S. Res.
• solid lubricants
• master gunnery sergeant
• interferer
• sterilants
• blue-rinseds
• magnesium phosphate
• Northland
• sapphirine
• anarchistically
• bandhnu
• foregowent
• beechy
• cybercultures
• kicking
• verser
• flaps
• quality time
• legal secretary
• immediate transfusion
• ammonium bitartrate
• imminence
• jeans
• acarines
• eccrisis
• borderlands
• scissors chair
• justiciabilities
• nucleotidyltransferases
• chaff-cutter
• golden mean
• up to one's elbow s in
• amphibiousness