Fend
A fiend.
To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows.
To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.
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Fend Quotations
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
David Cronenberg
So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.
Kurt Loder
Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.
Neko Case
That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.
Robert Jay Lifton
We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.
Gordon Brown
There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.
Steve Perry
Fend Translations
fend in German is abwehren, sich wehren
fend in Spanish is defenderse
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