forfend definition

  • verb-transitive:
    • maintain or ward off; avert.
    • Archaic To forbid.
    • to help keep or prevent; avert.
    • To defend or protect.
    • Archaic To forbid.
    • To defend or protect.
    • To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
    • To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
    • maintain or defend against; avert.
    • Archaic To forbid.
    • To defend or protect.
    • To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
    • to help keep or defend against; avert.
    • Archaic To forbid.
    • to guard or protect.
    • To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.

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  • verb:
    • To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
    • To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
    • stop the incident of; restrict from occurring
    • prevent the event of; counter from taking place
    • To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
    • stop the incident of; restrict from taking place
    • To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
    • prevent the event of; restrict from taking place

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  • others:
    • To fend off; avert; forbid.
    • To fight; avert; forbid.
    • To fend off; avert; forbid.
    • To battle; avert; forbid.

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