Forfended

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  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of forfend.
  • Word Usage
    "The likelihood of suffering from PTSD is cumulative, meaning that if PTSD could be measured so effectively, and thus forfended a soldier who spends a year and a half in Iraq but comes within a tenth of getting full-blown PTSD will still be 90% of the way to PTSD when they return a year later."
    verb-stem
    forfend