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You can make 15 words from fend according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of fend

fend efnd fned nfed enfd nefd fedn efdn fden dfen edfn defn fnde nfde fdne dfne ndfe dnfe endf nedf ednf denf ndef dnef

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word fend. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in fend.

Definitions and meaning of fend

fend

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛnd/
• Rhymes: -ɛnd

Etymology 1

From Middle English fenden (“defend, fight, prevent”), shortening of defenden (“defend”), from Old French deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin dēfendō (“to ward off”), from dē- +‎ *fendō (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“strike, kill”).

Verb

fend (third-person singular simple present fends, present participle fending, simple past and past participle fended)

1. (intransitive) To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
   • 1990, Messrs Howley and Murphy, quoted in U.S. House Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Oversight hearing on the Federal Service Contract Act,^[2] U.S. Government Printing Office, page 40,

     Mr. Howley. They are telling him how much they will increase the reimbursement for the total labor cost. The contractor is left to fend as he can.

     Chairman Murphy. Obviously, he can’t fend for any more than the money he has coming in.
2. (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).

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Translations

Noun

fend (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fēnd, feond, from Old English fēond (“adversary, foe, enemy, fiend, devil, Satan”), from Proto-Germanic *fijandz, present participle of *fijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate”). More at fiend.

Noun

fend (plural fends)

1. (UK dialectal) An enemy; fiend; the Devil.

Anagrams

• Fed'n, def'n, defn

Albanian

Alternative forms

• (Gheg) fên(i)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spenda, from Proto-Indo-European *spand-, related to Ancient Greek σφαδάζω (sphadázō, “to shiver, tremble”), Sanskrit स्पन्दत (spandate, “to quiver, shake”), Old Norse fisa (“to fart”), Norwegian fattr (“id”)).

Verb

fend (aorist fenda, participle fendur)

1. to break wind, fart (silently)

Synonyms

• pjerdh

Derived terms

• fendur (participle)

Related terms

• fendë f (fëndë f)

References

Further reading

• [3] active verb fend • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

French

Pronunciation

Verb

fend

1. third-person singular present indicative of fendre

Hungarian

Etymology

fen +‎ -d

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛnd]
• Hyphenation: fend

Verb

fend

1. second-person singular imperative present definite of fen

   Synonym: fenjed

Manx

Etymology

From English fend.

Verb

fend (verbal noun fendeil, past participle fendit)

1. to protect, defend

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

fend (plural fendes or fendis)

1. Alternative form of feend