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Definition fend

Etymology 1

From Middle English fenden (“defend, fight, prevent”), shortening of defenden (“defend”), from Old French deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin d?fend? (“to ward off”), from d?- +‎ *fend? (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??en- (“strike, kill”).

Verb

fend (third-person singular simple present fends, present participle fending, simple past and past participle fended)

1. (intransitive) To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
2. (rare, except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off).

Noun

fend (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being.

Etymology 2

From Middle English f?nd, feond, from Old English f?ond (“adversary, foe, enemy, fiend, devil, Satan”), from Proto-Germanic *fijandz, present participle of **fijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to hate”). More at fiend.

Noun

fend (plural fends)

1. (Britain dialectal) An enemy; fiend; the Devil.

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