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fend off
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Princeton's WordNet
debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward offverb
prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
"Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
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fend offverb
To ward off; to drive (something) away; to turn away; to defend against; to repel with force or effort.
Etymology: fend + off
ChatGPT
fend off
To fend off means to defend oneself from or prevent something undesirable or harmful from affecting oneself. It could refer to physical action, such as blocking a physical attack, or metaphorically, like resisting an illness or argument.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fend off in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fend off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of fend off in a Sentence
It was like war, they would use everything from elbows to hands to knees to fend off our players. It was really difficult.
No one man is in charge. It’s a negotiating team, sometimes the India team does get preoccupied by having to fend off all these attacks, but they will not buckle under finger pointing from a small group of Western countries.
This is important as part of the fixed policy between us and the United States, our ally, and also important in order to fend off the regional threats, chief of which is the Iranian threat, of course.
Maybe it is denial that has kept markets from talking about it, but stagnation should be on the hymn sheet, i fail to comprehend how flat/falling U.S. inflation coupled with deteriorating external factors is an argument to hike rates. We are doing well to fend off deflation.
Having championed global efforts to defend Internet freedom and fend off threats to religious liberty, the United States should take the lead to save the lives of these bloggers who face the very real risk of being murdered for the crime of expressing their views online.
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