fence
/fɛns/ verb C2- To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- To defend or guard.
- To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- To engage in the sport of fencing (against).
- To jump over a fence.
- To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
He/she/it fences · Past fenced · Past participle fenced · -ing form fencing
Verb forms
- Base form
- fence
- He/she/it
- fences
- Past
- fenced
- Past participle
- fenced
- -ing form
- fencing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Those Pye girls are cheats all round,” said Diana indignantly, as they climbed the fence of the main road.
When she had gone several miles she thought she would stop to rest, and so climbed to the top of the fence beside the road and sat down.
There was a great cornfield beyond the fence, and not far away she saw a Scarecrow, placed high on a pole to keep the birds from the ripe corn.
Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.
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