Usually means: Defending or protecting oneself independently.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. fending: Merriam-Webster
  2. fending: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fending: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fending, fending: Wordnik
  5. fending: Wiktionary
  6. Fending, fending: Dictionary.com
  7. Fending: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Fending: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. fending: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. fending: FreeDictionary.org
  11. fending: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fending: Idioms

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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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