FENDS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

fends

verb

present tense third-person singular of fend

as in protects

to drive danger or attack away from learned to use humor to fend herself from criticism

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The feline panleukopenia vaccination also protects cats against two other common viruses — feline herpesvirus and feline calicivirus.

— Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026
Florsheim’s argument has centered on Wisconsin’s Public Trust Doctrine, which protects public rights in navigable waters and the land beneath them.

— Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2026

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Coach Hudson defends Ricky to Gerry’s face, but privately lectures his daughter about the optics of their close relationship as a female football coach and tells her to put some space between her and Chad (and unknowingly, Russ).

— Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2026
In relation to what one longs for, questions, resists, imagines, or defends.

— Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026

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Bumble and bumble’s Heat Shield mist is made to be sprayed onto dry hair before a flat iron, curling iron, or other hot tool, providing essential UV protection that shields color.

— Polly Blitzer, Glamour, 9 Sep. 2026
The death penalty in the state has largely been tied up in litigation over an agreement related to the coronavirus pandemic that defense lawyers contend temporarily shields many death row residents from execution.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026

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