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vb. (en-pastfend off)
Usage examples of "fended off".
She did not look round, but her eyes in the soft metallic sheen of the mirror sought for his, and the reflected look was at once tender and grim, as though she smiled at him while she fended off another who stood behind him.
She came gliding in and fended off a poleboat with a clumsy scrape of hull against hull.
The same enchantment fended off die snow and wind while we rested, and dien we took off once more.
The damman giggled and ruffled his ears, but fended off the wet tongue.
Vanye dismounted, took up her saddle kit, that she would never leave behind her, and fended off those that offered help, no difficult matter.
Hanno sprang down, braced calves between two thwarts, took an oar a sailor handed him, fended off while his rowers followed one by one.
She fended off the overhanging branches of the beech trees in the estate copse with her riding crop, and when her fear and panic had lessened, she reined in the mare and dismounted.
He gave Ekaterin's hand a warm grasp, and fended off Nikki's immediate attempt to appropriate him and carry him off to hear about the wonders of the ImpSec shuttle.
Sethos handed Davy over to Ramses and helped Maryam out of the carriage, while the rest of us fended off the other children.
Niun swallowed pride and knelt down by him, fended off the dus that wanted close to him, then let it, for the warmth was comfort to Duncan.