What is "beat off"

Usage examples of "beat off".

They established guards around their squads, and helped beat off the Raiders when their own territory was invaded, but this was all they would do.

Two of his adversaries were prostrate, more than one were groaning, and the indomitable Frenchman had actually almost beat off the ruffians, when, by a trick, he was overcome.

Rex neglected the warning, and Rufus Dawes took him by the throat one day, and would have strangled him, but that Troke beat off the angered man with a favourite bludgeon.

Give it another fifteen or twenty years, and Mathison is going to be the sort of colony that has to beat off applicants with a stick.

The Malwa commander will be counting on them to beat off any flank attack.

The attack had crashed in behind a massive javelin launch, and Second Platoon had taken terrific casualties before it could beat off the assault.

He tried to dodge, dropped the thing he held, raising his arms to beat off the serpent.

Even if we beat off the scouts quickly and with minimal losses—.

All of the soldiers who could had forced themselves into the buildings directly facing the Malwa, fired with determination to help beat off the attack.

A terrified nervousness that he tried to beat off had come over him.