fend
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1. fend - Noun
2. fend - Verb
Meaning
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.
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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.
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.
Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore; they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.
Most experts have assumed that the allosaurs, about 35 feet long, were the worst threats to the herbivores of the Jurassic, some of which were gigantic and probably able to fend off even an allosaur. But epanterias would have spelled trouble for everyone.
You feel that nothing you have learned has put down roots, that while you're capable of entering the magical universe, you cannot remain submerged in it. You feel that all of this may be nothing but a fantasy dreamed up by people to fend off their fear of death.
I that in heill wes and gladness, Am trublit now with gret seiknes, And feblit with infermité; Timor mortis conturbat me. Our plesance heir is all vane glory, This fals warld is bot transitory, The flesche is brukle, the Fend is sle; Timor mortis conturbat me.