head
/hɛd/ verb A2- To be in command of. (See also head up.) · Who heads the board of trustees?· to head an army, an expedition, or a riot
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence. · A group of clowns headed the procession.· The most important items headed the list.
- To strike with the head · to head the ball
- To move in a specified direction. · We are going to head up North for our holiday.· We will head off tomorrow.
- To remove the head from (a fish). · Near-synonym: (of people) behead /dehead· The salmon are first headed and then scaled.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To form a head. · This kind of cabbage heads early.
- To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head. · to head a nail
He/she/it heads · Past headed · Past participle headed · -ing form heading
Verb forms
- Base form
- head
- He/she/it
- heads
- Past
- headed
- Past participle
- headed
- -ing form
- heading
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“’Tis true, madame,” answered he, “that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king’s death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well-nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished.”
Morrel; and I think you will be satisfied on that head.
We performed the usual burial service, and he is at his rest, sewn up in his hammock with a thirty-six-pound shot at his head and his heels, off El Giglio island.
As Edmond paused, the black and bearded head of Caderousse appeared at the door.
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