fending

Meaning

of Fend

Synonyms

Examples

After fending off an attack by Sinister's new team of Marauders, the X-Men offer him a place on the team. Source: Internet

Earlier this month the former president of Tigray, Debretsion Gebremichael, accused Eritrean forces of Tigrayan forces were fending off Eritrean divisions on several fronts. Source: Internet

Dom Sibley played sensibly and left well but was undone by fending at a Rabada delivery that lifted and caught the outside edge through to wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock. Source: Internet

He explained these at first as having the function of "fending off" memories of infantile masturbation, but in later years he wrote that they represented Oedipal fantasies, stemming from innate drives that are sexual and destructive in nature. Source: Internet

He explains how, even though the United States would be better fending off bioterrorist attacks now than they would be a decade ago, the amount of money available to fight bioterrorism over the last three years has begun to decrease. Source: Internet

Even the federalists, fending off their opponents who accused them of creating an oppressive regime, were careful to acknowledge the risks of tyranny. Source: Internet