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Meaning fend meaning

What does fend mean?

fend

— verb try to manage without help The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died — verb (= resist, stand) withstand the force of something The trees resisted her stand the test of time The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow

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fend English » English

ward off parry turn away stave off stand resist repel get through fend off drive back avert turn down take off surmount spurn shield scorn ride out retreat repulse repudiate repress remove reject refuse rebuff push back prevent preclude pass up overcome outride oust manage make it keep grapple get over get along freeze off forfend forefend fight off dissociate dismiss deflect defend oneself defend decline cope

Topics fend topics

What do people use fend to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Defend

Conjugation fend conjugation

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fend · verb

Examples fend examples

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Simple sentences

They were left to fend for themselves.
At a young age, I had to learn to fend for myself.
I knew we had to fend for ourselves.
Some musicians and actors hire security guards to help fend off their over-eager fans.

Movie subtitles

And when your father died, leaving me with a small child. and practically no money, I had to fend for myself.
I had to fend Mr Egerman off.
If he finds he's using four divisions to fend off a handful of bandits he'll withdraw.
Fend off?
Fend off.
He's right. She can't fend for herself.
She can't fend for herself, mix with her own kind or do anything a wild lion must do to survive.
Let him fend for himself out in the world. He doesn't belong here anymore.
We'll go our separate ways tomorrow, and fend for ourselves for a while.
So you will have to fend for yourself.
He'll have to fend for himself.
You'll have to fend for yourself this weekend.
You fend for yourself!
Here I'm leaving you to fend for yourself when you're pregnant.
Fend her off, afore we catch afire!
She tried to fend off the murderer.
Either you come my way, under my command, or you can fend for yourself.
Let him fend for himself out in the world.
It's a bit untidy, bit of a mess. but we bachelors have to fend for ourselves, you know.
We'll fend you a new one and cope it alives chafely.
Fend for yourself!
In my day, we used to let them fend for themselves right out in the barn.
I was trying to fend off the snakes for you, you'll be bitten to death.
So he, uh. stage-managed his wife's disappearance with Rusty Regan to fend off any inquiries.
Let's let them fend for themselves. and see how they manage without our help!
He has to fend for himself.
Daisy is big enough to fend for herself.
They can fend off even a medium-side meteorite up to 50 miles.
You think poor people should fend for themselves.
You have to fend for yourself.
Fend?
You have to learn to fend for yourself in the outback, you know.
Let the lower creatures fend for themselves!
We need to league and organize to fend off the attacks of necrophiles and foreigners against our cemetery!

News and current affairs

For 25 years, the Bank tried to get governments out of agriculture, leaving impoverished peasants to fend for themselves.
Instead, each EU member state opted to fend for itself.
Given its efforts to fend off an attack, Iran represents a far more difficult target for Israel than Iraq and Syria did.
While the World Food Programme feeds North Korea's six million children, 17 million adults must fend for themselves.
A 2009 G-20 agreement to refrain from protectionism in the aftermath of the global financial crisis helped to fend off protectionism.
Worse, the north-south, core-periphery divide will harden, with taxpayer-backed banks on one side and banks that must fend for themselves on the other.
We - the new democracies of Eastern Europe - are becoming more and more like those countries that provide opportunity only for the rich, leaving everyone else to fend for themselves.
These will help Assad hunker down and fend off all comers in an Alawite mini-state that will include the Russian-leased port facility at Tartus.
Spain's protesters, and those in other countries, are right to be indignant: here is a system in which the bankers got bailed out, while those whom they preyed upon have been left to fend for themselves.
Just as some humans are unable to fend for themselves and need others to act as their guardians, so, too, will great apes living in the midst of human communities.
Community health workers could be trained in a matter of months to extend basic health care throughout rural areas, which could then be better mobilized to fend off the debilitating results of future hurricanes.
Finally, the bet assumes that oil-exporting countries like Nigeria, Venezuela, and especially Russia will fend off economic implosion, even as global oil prices plummet.
The government is fighting at least two wars simultaneously - taking on a deeply entrenched oligarchy, while trying to fend off its hostile eastern neighbor.
There, the private sector has essentially been left to fend for itself; and most households and companies are struggling, thus fueling continued economic implosion.
Indeed, he now invokes his formal democratic legitimacy to fend off demands for his resignation.
Those who did not were expected to fend mostly for themselves.
She is highly respected internationally, at the height of her popularity at home, and has no rivals to fend off within her own party.
The PDP did, however, fend off challenge in the oil-producing Niger Delta, President Goodluck Jonathan's home region.
They may fear the government; but they fear being left to fend for themselves even more.
Under current circumstances, the Democrats are strong enough - with control of the Senate and of the presidency - to fend off these assaults.
In poor countries, pregnant women often must fend for themselves; they have no healthcare and nowhere to turn.
There is, of course, another explanation of why Putin's popularity is still growing in the face of a worsening economy: those unable to fend for themselves naturally look to the state for help - and are hardly likely to bite the hand feeds them.
They understand that they would have to fend off an old-fashioned currency crisis at the worst possible time.

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