Usually means: Prevent, protect against, ward off.
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  1. forefend: Merriam-Webster
  2. forefend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forefend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forefend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forefend: Vocabulary.com
  6. forefend: Wordnik
  7. forefend: Wiktionary
  8. forefend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. forefend: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Forefend, forefend: Dictionary.com
  11. Forefend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. forefend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Forefend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. forefend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. forefend: FreeDictionary.org
  16. forefend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. forefend: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Forefend)

▸ verb:  Alternative spelling of forfend [(archaic) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.]

Similar:
forfend, fend, fend off, foreswear, forspeak, forbar, forfight, forestall, forbid, forwork, more...

Opposite:
allow, permit, let, approve

Phrases:
heaven forefend, god forefend, more...

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Similar:
forfend, fend, fend off, foreswear, forspeak, forbar, forfight, forestall, forbid, forwork, more...

Opposite:
allow, permit, let, approve

Phrases:
heaven forefend, god forefend, more...



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