Fend

Verb

 * 1)  To take care of or responsibility for oneself.
 * 2) * 1990, Messrs Howley and Murphy, quoted in U.S. House Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Oversight hearing on the Federal Service Contract Act, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 40,
 * Mr. Howley . They are telling him how much they will increase the reimbursement for the total labor cost. The contractor is left to fend as he can.
 * Chairman Murphy . Obviously, he can’t fend for any more than the money he has coming in.
 * 1) * 2003, Scott Turow Reversible Errors, page 376
 * The planet was full of creatures in need, who could not really fend, and the law was at its best when it ensured that they were treated with dignity.
 * 1)  To defend, to take care of; typically construed with for:.
 * 2) * 1999, Kuan-chung Lo, Guanzhong Luo, Luo Guanzhong, Moss Roberts, Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel, page 39
 * He fends, he blocks, too skillful to be downed.
 * 1) * 2002, Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor, page 187
 * “ My age is lot like yours. Lone women do not fare well. If I were not there to fend for you, you—”

Thesaurus
anticipate, arm, armor, avert, bar, beat off, bless, block, bulwark, champion, check, cloak, compass about, copyright, counter, cover, cushion, debar, defend, deflect, deter, discourage, dishearten, divert, drive back, ensure, estop, exclude, fence, fend off, forbid, foreclose, forestall, get by, guarantee, guard, harbor, haven, help, hinder, hold at bay, hold off, insure, keep, keep at bay, keep from, keep from harm, keep off, make do, make out, make safe, nestle, obstruct, obviate, parry, patent, police, preclude, prevent, prohibit, protect, push back, put back, rebuff, register, repel, repulse, resist, ride shotgun for, rule out, safeguard, save, screen, secure, shelter, shield, shroud, stave off, stop, turn aside, underwrite, ward off

Etymology
From fenden:, shortening of defenden:

Translations

 * Finnish: ,

Derived terms

 * fend and prove
 * fend away
 * fender
 * fend for oneself
 * fend off
 * forfend

Anagrams

 * defn