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Fend

verb

(past & past part. fended; pres. part. fending)

Try to manage without help.

Withstand the force of something. Synonyms: resist, stand. "Stand the test of time" , "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow"

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"Fend" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mahaffy, and where Hannibal? He felt that Mahaffy could fend for himself, but he experienced a moment of genuine concern when he thought of the child. In spite of himself, his thoughts returned to him again and again. But surely some one would shelter and care ...

— The Prodigal Judge • Vaughan Kester

... backed off, and blithely kicking up the water astern, disappeared down the river. Her going out severed their last bond with the world of civilization and henceforth they must fend for themselves in the wilderness. Natalie looked around at the grim, empty woods, and at the strange, alien boys who were to conduct them; and instinctively put out her ...

— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner

... will not make so much as he has been led to think he would. There are lots of bleeders here, but we mean to fend them off from him ...

— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn

... want to silence has said a thousand times! No; Felix seems capable of this, and it is not right to withhold him, and throw his education upon the kind friends who might be helping the other boys—boys whom I could not trust to fend for themselves and others, as ...

— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Arthur and Edie followed, and it remained for Lovel to make the more hazardous final ascent. For now there was no one left below to help him by holding the "guy" rope. Nevertheless, being young and accustomed to danger, he managed, though much banged and buffeted about by the wind, to fend himself off the rocks with the long pike-staff belonging to the beggar, which Edie had left him ...

— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett

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