Competition

Synonyms for fend

The synonym for fend recorded in this bank is stand, in the sense "withstand the force of something". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for fend

standverb, in the sense "withstand the force of something"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day fend is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineCompetition

withstand the force of something

The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

stand

Same sentence, swapped: The mountain climbers had to stand against the ice and snow.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

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Where fend turns up in the game

fend is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where fend is the trap

hackverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is cut, in the sense "be able to manage or manage successfully", and fend is on the board beside it.
improviseverb, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is extemporize, in the sense "manage in a makeshift way", so fend is there to be ruled out.

Play fend

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fend reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else

fend is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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