Usually means: Protected oneself from harm, attack.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word fended:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. fended: Merriam-Webster
  2. fended: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fended: Vocabulary.com
  4. fended: Wordnik
  5. fended: Wiktionary
  6. Fended, fended: Dictionary.com
  7. Fended: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Fended: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. fended: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. fended: FreeDictionary.org
  11. fended: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fended: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fended: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fend as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fend)

verb:  (intransitive) To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
verb:  (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).
noun:  (obsolete) Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being.
noun:  (UK dialectal) An enemy; fiend; the Devil.
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