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We found 8 dictionaries that define the word fends:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. fends: Merriam-Webster
  2. fends: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fends: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fends, fends: Wordnik
  5. fends: Wiktionary
  6. fends: Dictionary.com
  7. fends: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fends: Idioms

(Note: See fend as well.)

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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