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seto vivo
, defensa
, protección
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Hedge
- (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
- (v. i.) To shelter ones self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
- (v. t.) To surround so as to prevent escape.
- (v. t.) To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
- (v. t.) To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.
- (v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in ones speech so as to avoid committing ones self to anything definite.
- (v. t.) To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
- (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
Synonyms:
Circumvent, Dodge, Duck, Elude, Evade, Fudge, Hedgerow, Hedging, Parry, Skirt,
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• Hedged
- (imp. & p. p.) of Hedge
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• Hedgerow
- (n.) A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields.
Synonyms:
Hedge,
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