Fend
Fend verb - To drive danger or attack away from.
Nearby Word: fending
House
House verb - To provide with living quarters or shelter.
Common collocations
| times | fend times | house times |
Both words in one sentence
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Dawn spends the entire episode alone in her house, having to fend off a demonic disturbance that, unlike the norm for this show, is played for pure horror instead of action/laughs.
Source: Out-of-Genre Experience - Their aunt takes them in for a short while, but after leaving her house neither the police or doctors are willing to help them and they must fend for themselves, stealing food to survive and living in an abandoned bomb shelter by a river.
Source: Social Services Does Not Exist -
In the final episode, Steve also runs to his car and almost leaves Jonathan and Nancy to fend for themselves, but looks back to the house at the last moment and realizes he can't leave Nancy, either.
Source: Series / Stranger Things
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