fend off's Usage Examples:

While KSOL managed to fend off competition from KBLX unscathed throughout the 1980s, KSOL's ratings began to decline due to competition from KMEL, then a Top 40 station which was slowly evolving in a rhythmic contemporary format before going in a mainstream urban direction.

Its purpose was to fend off the Livonian Knights.

Survival Because adult great spotted kiwis are large and powerful, they are able to fend off most predators that attack them, such as stoats, ferrets, weasels, pigs, brush possums and cats, all of which are invasive species in New Zealand.

The screenplay concerns a woman who pretends to be married to fend off would-be suitors and jealous wives, then regrets her deception when she.

various health problems, from Abdominal pain to Epilepsy, avert marriage meltdowns and financial crises and even fend off the powers of other healers.

While the Jinryū was still in development, Mizuno began to develop an interceptor which both the Army and Navy air force were in desperate need of to fend off the Boeing B-29 Superfortress.

and control biochemical reactions), antibodies (immunoglobulins which fend off invading bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens, as well as toxins or antigens.

political party founded in South Australia in reaction to Labor, keen to fend off a perceived threat to the FPPU"s interests against a rising labour movement.

Of all the hoys, she had probably the most distinguished career in that she helped fend off.

Basis for a foul-tasting purple infusion brewed by the Lovegoods in order to fend off Gulping Plimpies.

03 m throw to fend off second-placed Majewski (who managed 21.

During this attack, Strachwitz organized the traffic across the bridge and ensured delivery of the anti-aircraft ammunition to help fend off the aerial attack, which inflicted only minor damage and did not stop the German advance.

NEO is able to repel the occupation by RAM and fend off the ensuing large-scale attack by RAM.

Synonyms:

preclude, foreclose, prevent, avoid, ward off, forestall, obviate, avert, head off, debar, deflect, forfend, forefend, forbid, stave off,

Antonyms:

necessitate, attack, admit, let, confront,