to hedge
- verb
- /hɛdʒ/
- At the tall hedges that separate the estate from its neighbors, Frank gestures to take in the entire length of the hedged border.
Examples
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The garden was beautifully hedged with tall, green shrubs on all sides.
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In the daylight, she could see that the plot was hedged on two sides by walnut groves.
Fiction book (1994) -
A long gravel driveway led back; bushes and trees hedged the lawn.
Fiction book (2001) -
Finally, Lloyd leads them into the Great House itself and onto its stately old verandah, where we could have a full view of its garden, with its broad walks, hedged with box and adorned with fruit trees and flowers of almost every variety.
Academic text (2008) -
They hedged the yard with vibrant flowers and dense bushes for added privacy.
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To create a tranquil space, she hedged the patio with a variety of plants and low hedges.
Synonyms
To be all around a person or thing on every side
Surround something completely, often with a wall or fence
To surround an area with a wall to protect it
To put a barrier around land to mark or protect it
Surround an area with a fence to stop people from entering
To surround an area with a barrier to keep others out
To enclose an area by putting up rails
Surround a place or person so they cannot move freely
To surround an area with a strong fence of wooden or metal posts for protection
To surround a place with strong wooden posts to protect it
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
To protect yourself from losing money by choosing different plans or investments
Compounds
- Specialized
A company that manages money for rich people and uses risky methods to try to make big profits
A row of privet bushes planted close together to make a living fence for a garden
A plant that lives for many years and spreads by underground stems in wet or shady places
- UK
A plant from Europe with pink or white flowers whose leaves make soap when crushed
- South African
A South African bush with sharp forked branches and fruit like small plums often planted as a fence
A climbing wildflower with twining stems and pink or white trumpet-shaped flowers
How Enclosed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hedge as a verb comes from the same old word hecg meaning 'fence', so to hedge land is simply to surround it with bushes or a living fence.