fend

IPA: fˈɛnd

(intransitive) To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
(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).

Examples of "fend" in Sentences

Instead, religions have had to fend for themselves in attracting, and retaining, members.
"This is not an intended strike (but) Weyman has adopted a technique with his fend which is highly reckless," Kite argued.
There is another group who think that the best solution is to do away with all these pensions and let those people fend for themselves.
"Let's face it," Warren said, "This is sort of how we went about the rescue -- we rescued at the top and we left the bottom to kind of fend for itself -- and that's showing up in the unemployment numbers."
TIMONEY: Well, that's a-- my understanding is, and I don't know too much about that case, but my understanding was this young 15-year - old may have been bullied in school and brought it with him to school just to kind of fend off bullies.
And we were quite disturbed at the end of it, when we found that Rosario had actually put a false name on this note that he shoved in the baby ` s diaper and just left him the way that he did in this parking lot, and as you had mentioned, defenseless, to kind of fend for himself.