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Fended

Fend \Fend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fended; p. pr. & vb. n. Fending.] [Abbrev. fr. defend.] To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows.

With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold.
--Dryden.

To fend off a boat or To fend off a vessel (Naut.), to prevent its running against anything with too much violence.

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fended

vb. (en-past of: fend)

Usage examples of "fended".

The other enclaves of Folk scattered about the world-continent either fended adequately enough for themselves without an Archimagical guardian, or were superintended by me.

Why, Mithral Hall is the smallest of the three, yet she fended the army of Menzoberranzan!

When the next two worgs approached, one from either side, the dwarves turned back to back and fended the attacks.

How might he engage them in any manner to distract them, to buy his friends and the other gallant defenders of Shallows some respite, at least, while they fended the town from the orc hordes?

It snapped at Ryld once, twice, and the warrior fended the attacks off with his greatsword, laboring to keep the twitching mandibles away from him.

She did not look round, but her eyes in the soft metallic sheen of the mirror sought for his, and the reflected look was at once tender and grim, as though she smiled at him while she fended off another who stood behind him.

If the image of a man had ventured to walk through the invisible barrier, how could he be fended off by those meaner safeguards she had never needed?

Langholme, fended off by a lunging elbow, reeled several yards across the exercise ground, and Thomas Blount was on his back in the dust with Harry on top of him.

There was a copper taste in her mouth, the loom of a black boat passing beside her—she fended and evaded it, and evaded the gray rough-hewn stone of Mantovan's Jut on starboard.

She fended a bit from Del's boat, shoved the bow out against the Snake's current and let the current slew her hard as she ran back to stern again, getting underway.

She came gliding in and fended off a poleboat with a clumsy scrape of hull against hull.

The anguish/ shock/loss/hatred/fury in Rojer's tone had to be fended off by parent and grandparent.

He fended off such an accusation with raised arms and a startled expression.

The same enchantment fended off die snow and wind while we rested, and dien we took off once more.

Evidently the magic that fended off the burning pitch was ineffective against iron or stone, or perhaps the Master could concentrate only on one danger at a time.