Crossword-Solution: FEND 4 letters, 72 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Fend n. A fiend.
Fend v. t. To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward
off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows.
Fend v. i. To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to
parry; to shift off.

We have 72 clues for the answer “FEND”

Clue Answers
Provide, as for oneself 1 answer
Shift (for oneself) 1 answer
Resist: Poet. 1 answer
Resist, with "off" 1 answer
Repulse, with "off" 1 answer
Repel; manage 1 answer
Provide: Colloq. 1 answer
"With fern beneath to ___ the bitter cold."—Dryden. 1 answer
CARE for oneself 1 answer
Deflect, with "off" 1 answer
repel from 1 answer
Manage (for oneself) 1 answer
Manage (for yourself) 1 answer
Manage independently 1 answer
Manage without assistance 1 answer
Manage without help 1 answer
Parry, with "off" 1 answer
Parry: Poet. 1 answer
Provide (for oneself) 1 answer
__ for oneself (manage alone) 1 answer
___ for one's self (manage). 1 answer
__ off (resist) 1 answer
___ off (beat back) 1 answer
Something to do for yourself. 1 answer
__ off (deflect) 1 answer
___ off (keep back) 1 answer
___ off (parry) 1 answer
___ off (resist successfully) 1 answer
__ for oneself 1 answer
Try to resist 1 answer
___ off (turn aside). 1 answer
___ off: drive away 1 answer
Try to manage without help 1 answer
Try to get along without help 1 answer
Battle (off) 2 answers
___ off (keep at bay) 2 answers
Forestall, with "off" 2 answers
Make shift 2 answers
Rebuff, with "off" 2 answers
__ off (repel) 3 answers
Be independent 3 answers
"Take care of yourself!" 3 answers
BEAT off 4 answers
keep off 4 answers
Repel (with "off") 4 answers
Fight (off) 5 answers
fight-off 5 answers
Provide for 5 answers
Fight (for) 6 answers
Keep away 8 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FEND (5)

Hither had strayed, while from the frost I fend My tender myrtles, the he-goat himself, Lord of the flock; when Daphnis I espy! Soon as he saw me, "Hither haste," he cried, "O Meliboeus! goat and kids are safe; And, if you have an idle hour to spare, Rest here beneath the shade.
The Bucolics and Eclogues Virgil 2008
From this too thou, since in the noontide heats 'Tis most persistent, fend thy teeming herds, And feed them when the sun is newly risen, Or the first stars are ushering in the night.
The Georgics Virgil 2008
Whan al was slain bot sche al one, This olde fend, this Sarazine, Let take anon this Constantine With al the good sche thider broghte, And hath ordeined, as sche thoghte, A nakid Schip withoute stiere, In which the good and hire in fiere, 710 Vitailed full for yeres fyve, Wher that the wynd it wolde dryve, Sche putte upon the wawes wilde.
Confessio Amantis John Gower 1995
THE BASKET MAKER "A man," says Seyavi of the campoodie, "must have a woman, but a woman who has a child will do very well." That was perhaps why, when she lost her mate in the dying struggle of his race, she never took another, but set her wit to fend for herself and her young son.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin 2008
Dickey Daw drank his family into the poorhouse, an institution which sent Sophie to fend for herself in 1805, procuring her a place as servant at a farm on the island.
She Stands Accused Victor MacClure 1996

Quotes with FEND (3)

We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this — through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication — we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enoug…
Kay Redfield Jamison An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Are you okay with what we ordered?” Angeline asked him. “You didn’t pipe up with any requests.” Neil shook his head, face stoic. He kept his dark hair in a painfully short and efficient haircut. It was the kind of no-nonsense thing the Alchemists would’ve loved. “I can’t waste time quibbling over trivial things like pepperoni and mushrooms. If you’d gone to my school in Devonshire, you’d understand. For one of my sophomore classes, they left us alone on the moors to fend for …
Richelle Mead The Fiery Heart
But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.
Sarah Addison Allen The Peach Keeper
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 146 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).