to fend
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4.7
- verb
- /fɛnd/
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valerse por sí mismo
- Absent Trujillo's support, the Japanese colonists found it ever more difficult to fend for themselves.
- left to fend
- able to fend
- fend off attempts
When you have too much, you start to forget how to fend for yourself.
- When you have too much, you start to forget how to fend for yourself.
- Your cat can't fend for itself.
- So men and women in the militias that fended them off.
- What's the word steely, almost inhumane touch to it, like, like New York is you fend for yourself.
- You can't have that toy that you, you know, you better learn how to, you know, fend for yourself.
- And that's all that was required for them to combat this endotoxin and fend it off.
- Also, if there's extreme neediness, depending on what those needs are, it will have me question, OK, can this man fend for himself?
- So I've had to use physical violence to fend them off at times, but I live to tell the tales.
- That's going to help you fend off these cravings.
- And the answer was he had to fend off any opponent from the far right.
Examples
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I can fend for myself.
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Then you might have to fend for yourself.
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When you have too much, you start to forget how to fend for yourself.
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Yeah, I had to fend for myself, man.
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So you should just be able to fend for yourself no matter what business or sports or just life in general.
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Leave him to fend for himself?
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Folks out here learn to fend for themselves.
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You wanted to go to school out of state and leave me here to fend for myself.
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If a serious chronic illness develops, however, there is no one to help and families have to fend for their own.
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After moving to a new city, she quickly learned to fend for herself and manage her own expenses.
Synonyms
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5.6
Look after yourself without help from others
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4.4
To support yourself without help from other people
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Etymology
Fend comes from the same root as defend, which means 'protect' or 'keep off'. So to fend for yourself is to 'protect' or 'take care of' yourself without help.