Synonyms for fend
fɛndfend

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1. fendverb

   try to manage without help

   "The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died"

   Synonyms:
   resist, stand

2. resist, stand, fendverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   jib, put up, baulk, reject, stand, stand firm, resist, abide, support, hold out, withstand, stomach, digest, suffer, balk, brook, dissent, stick out, tolerate, remain firm, place upright, endure, stand up, bear, defy, refuse, protest

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1. • Cope
   • Oppose

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1. fendverb

   Synonyms:
   ward off, avoid, parry

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1. Fox News:

   Democrats are painting Republican Senate candidates in upcoming elections and midterms as cruel and out of touch, well, apparently Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is content to leave them out to dry and fend for themselves.

2. Fortina Harris:

   We've been dogged out, misused, abused and we still need to pay water bills and wash our bodies, we don't get any supplement. No discounts or nothing for buying water. We got to fend for our self.

3. Elizabeth Warren:

   Regulators need to rely on more than luck to fend off risks to the financial system.

4. James Orlando:

   We do not think it (fiscal stimulus) will be overly beneficial for the U.S. economy, when we look at long-term cycles, we want the government to be reducing deficits during expansion time periods so that they actually have more ammunition to fend off the next recession.

5. Choi Young-il:

   It was like war, they would use everything from elbows to hands to knees to fend off our players. It was really difficult.