Definition of Fend

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Definition of Fend
	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. Related Definitions: Act, As, Defensive, Entering, Fend, Fiend, From, Hitting, In, Keep, Off, Often, On, Opposition, Or, Out, Parry, Prevent, Resist, Shift, Shut, The, To, Ward, With

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

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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