You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
resist, stand, fend
(verb) withstand the force of something; “The trees resisted her”; “stand the test of time”; “The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow”
fend
(verb) try to manage without help; “The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fend (third-person singular simple present fends, present participle fending, simple past and past participle fended)
(intransitive) To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
(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).
fend (uncountable)
(obsolete) Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being.
fend (plural fends)
(UK dialectal) An enemy; fiend; the Devil.
• Fed'n, def'n, defn
Source: Wiktionary
Fend, n.
Definition: A fiend. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Fend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fended; p. pr. & vb. n. Fending.] Etym: [Abbrev. fr. defend.]
Definition: To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows. With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold. Dryden. To fend off a boat or vessel (Naut.), to prevent its running against anything with too much violence.
Fend, v. i.
Definition: To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off. The dexterous management of terms, and being able to fend . . . with them, passes for a great part of learning. Locke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 May 2025
(noun) the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.