Usually means: Defend or protect oneself independently.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. fend: Merriam-Webster
  2. fend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fend: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fend, fend, fend: Wordnik
  7. fend: Wiktionary
  8. fend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fend: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Fend, fend: Dictionary.com
  12. fend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. fend: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Fend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. fend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. fend: Rhymezone
  17. Fend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. fend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. fend: FreeDictionary.org
  20. fend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. fend: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. fend: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -fend, fend-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. fend: Legal dictionary

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  1. fend: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FEND: Acronym Finder
  2. fend: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fend: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fend: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fend)

verb:  (intransitive) To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
verb:  (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:  (obsolete) Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being.
noun:  (UK dialectal) An enemy; fiend; the Devil.

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