fend away

To turn away or deny; to keep something at bay; to fight or ward off. The governor fended away questions about his role in the money laundering scandal. I fended away the blows of my attackers.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Hope	[həup]
Ardeshir	-	Persian
Judith	JOO-dith (English), zhoo-DEET (French), YOO-dit (German)	English, Jewish, French, German, Spanish, Biblical
Crocker	['krɔkə]
Austen	[ɔ'stin]
Dinesh	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali