禦

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fend off

On-Yomi: ギョ

Koohii stories:

1) [astridtops] 23-3-2007(25): The beautiful woman has to fend off honorable admirers every day, who want to drag her to the altar and marry her.

2) [Katsuo] 17-10-2008(11): Tired of fending off your pregnant girlfriend's remarks, you do the honorable thing and take her to the altar.

3) [blannk] 30-10-2009(2): The send off fend off rend off: At the end of the send off for the honourable gentleman - his name was Madoff, if I recall - the only way I could fend off his advances was to rend off his two small, well, you know, don't make me say it. Late that night I put them on the altar in penance, but they rolled off.

4) [Megaqwerty] 22-6-2007(2): As the zombies broke into the church, I, the honorable protagonist, fended off the waves while standing atop an altar: you could have called it an altar call, if you would.

5) [mantixen] 15-2-2007(2): The honorable altars of Japan have to fend off the droves of visitors.

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