fend

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We try to fend them off, but our weapons dont seem to harm them.

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Quick take

try to manage without help; "The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

try to manage without help; "The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died"

verb

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fend.

verb

try to manage without help; "The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died"

verb

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"

Example sentences

We try to fend them off, but our weapons dont seem to harm them.

Lost faith in myself, saw no point in my great idea, mother attacks, no real man to fend off.

Now I'm on guard, preparing to either fend off a hard sell or make a break for the exit.

A toddler may feel at ease because someone convinced him his flashlight will fend off the monsters in his closet and under his bed.

Maybe we should make a slight effort to stop telling schoolchildren that they're special or different, and more time letting people fend for themselves a bit first.

If Intel and AMD are not able to fend off ARM, and the ARM architecture does displace x86, it would cause turbulence for a large number of companies.

We were served dingy water reclaimed from the train radiator and a pigeon what had flown against a window and died, and told to fend for ourselves.

It's in each individual's interest to protect their personal property, but not in the group's interest to create a 'fend for yourself' attitude.

You point is : if you're a talented con artist who was able to con $50B out, then you would mislead/charm/fend off a SEC or any other investigator better than a lawyer.

His experience in Nazi concentration camps led him to conclude that the only way to fend off complete apathy was to try to find a personal meaning in your experience.

Deficit spending required the Federal Reserve to keep borrowing rates high to fend of inflation, which meant it was more expensive to borrow money for any sort of investment.

Usually the first mover is able to fend off any real competition by lowering its prices below that which its competitors can afford, given that they still have an infrastructure to build.

And who would be willing to live with the sword of Damocles over their heads, knowing that at some point in the future, they could be ousted by the council of elders, forced to leave their home and friends, to fend for themselves?2.

Modern humans no more need to appreciate the economics of consistent 12% gains than they need to know how to fend off a polar bear, or how to date three supermodels on a modest budget--it just ain't gonna happen.

Might there be a "galactic current" so that the ship can go with the flow?I know its just for fun but its still silly to think that anyone who could propel a canned ape at .8c wouldn't be able fend off a few rouge hydrogen atoms.

Listen, I know that once we turn forty we're all put out to pasture in the Great Programmer Iceberg and left to fend for ourselves but:I think the takeaway is, you're not building something sustainable if you can't attract people with kids.

Sometimes this works, but often it means that nobody on staff is really a master coder, nobody on staff has ever had to fend off Russian hackers attempting to take down your code at 3 am, nobody on staff has had to deal with thousands of users who wake up one morning, can't log in and no money is coming into the company.