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v. To ward off. Often used with off: fend off an attack.

v. Archaic To defend.

verb-intransitive. To make an effort to resist: fend against the cold.

verb-intransitive. To attempt to manage without assistance: had to fend for ourselves until we were rescued.

n. An enemy; fiend; the Devil.

v. To take care of oneself, to take responsibility for oneself.

v. To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off).

n. A fiend.

v. To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off.

verb-intransitive. To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.

To defend; protect; guard.

To keep off; prevent from entering or impinging; ward off; forbid: usually followed by off: as, to fend off blows. Compare fen.

To support; maintain.

To act in opposition; offer resistance.

To parry; fence.

To make provision; give care.

n. The shift which one makes for one's self, whether for sustenance or in any other respect; self-defense or self-support.

n. A Middle English form of fiend.

v. try to manage without help

v. withstand the force of something

"And we were quite disturbed at the end of it, when we found that Rosario had actually put a false name on this note that he shoved in the baby ` s diaper and just left him the way that he did in this parking lot, and as you had mentioned, defenseless, to kind of fend for himself."

to fend off a vessel   

fended    fending    fends   

contend    deal    make do    cope    get by    manage    grapple    make out    fight    defend   

to fend and prove   

fender    fend away    fend off    fend for oneself    forfend    fend and prove   

fiend    resist    parry   

End    Friend    Mende    Wend    abend    amend    append    apprehend    ascend    attend