Usually means: Prevent, protect, or ward off.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. forfend: Merriam-Webster
  2. forfend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forfend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forfend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forfend: Vocabulary.com
  6. forfend: Wordnik
  7. forfend: Wiktionary
  8. forfend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. forfend: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Forfend, forfend: Dictionary.com
  11. forfend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Forfend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. forfend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Forfend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. forfend: FreeDictionary.org
  16. forfend: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. forfend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. forfend: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forfend: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forfend: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (forfend)

▸ verb:  (archaic) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.

Similar:
defend, forbar, forwarn, forspeak, forbid, forbear, ward off, foresnaffle, forban, antevert, more...

Opposite:
permit, allow, encourage

Types:
forbid, prohibit, interdict, more...

Phrases:
heaven forfend, god forfend, more...
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Similar:
defend, forbar, forwarn, forspeak, forbid, forbear, ward off, foresnaffle, forban, antevert, more...

Opposite:
permit, allow, encourage

Types:
forbid, prohibit, interdict, more...

Phrases:
heaven forfend, god forfend, more...



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