fend
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
try to manage without help
The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died
Types & categories
- grapple hypernym
Sense 2 verb
withstand the force of something
The trees resisted her
Types & categories
- fight down hypernym
Related & opposite
- stand derivation
- fender derivation
- fender derivation
- fender derivation
- cowcatcher derivation
- repellent derivation
- remain firm verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | grapple |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stand |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fender |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fender |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fender |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cowcatcher |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | repellent |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | remain firm |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | fight down |