fend off's Usage Examples:

product, a breakthrough patent, overseas expansion) that allows it to fend off competitors.

Also this way they were up and alert[clarification needed] to fend off any possible surprise Bedouin attack.

employed in the mining industry — a say in local affairs, in order to fend off British complaints.

The stiff-arm fend (also known as a hand off or fend off in rugby league and rugby union, sometimes as a don't argue in Australia, or a stiff arm or straight.

In this game, the player must fend off an alien invasion from the planet Mars by defending the world's major cities.

Sleaford Railway was promoted as a branch of the Great Northern Railway to fend off an expected incursion by the rival Great Eastern Railway.

Hicks overcame the Labor majority to win in 1984, and continued to fend off spirited challenges from Labor until it was abolished in 1993.

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

fictional Stark Expo, the attraction features Tony Stark recruiting guests to fend off extraterrestrial beings that are attacking Hong Kong.

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.

banner expanded into Ontario in the early 2000s as Loblaw attempts to fend off competition from department stores including U.

The club had sold it in 1982 for £225,000 in order to fend off the threat of eviction, arranging a 125-year lease.

He was forced to fend off a Paduan invasion in the War of the Castle of Love (1215).

In 1611, with a decree from the Ottoman sultan, Theophanes was able to fend off the Armenians from taking over the celebration of the Holy Light.

Dol Said managed to fend off the attack with help from his allies.

as opposed to a formation constructed or used in a secondary manner to fend off earlier wishes.

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

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.

world's only poisonous rodent, the maned rat borrows toxins from plants to fend off predators.

bees (business), firms or individuals employed by a target company to fend off a takeover bid Killer Bees (Texas Senate), a group of Texas senators, including.

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;