hedge
/ˈhɛd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To enclose with a hedge or hedges. · to hedge a field or garden
- To obstruct or surround.
- To offset the risk associated with.
- To avoid verbal commitment. · He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
- To construct or repair a hedge.
- To reduce one's exposure to risk.
He/she/it hedges · Past hedged · Past participle hedged · -ing form hedging
Verb forms
- Base form
- hedge
- He/she/it
- hedges
- Past
- hedged
- Past participle
- hedged
- -ing form
- hedging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually _took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket_, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
The first thing she heard was a general chorus of “There goes Bill!” then the Rabbit’s voice along—“Catch him, you by the hedge!” then silence, and then another confusion of voices—“Hold up his head—Brandy now—Don’t choke him—How was it, old fellow?
The garden sloping to the road, the house standing in it, the green pales and the laurel hedge, everything declared they were arriving.
When their strife was at its height, a Bramble from the neighboring hedge lifted up its voice, and said in a boastful tone: “Pray, my dear friends, in my presence at least cease from such vain disputings.”
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