hedge

hedge is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
4. transitive verb. To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
5. transitive verb. To surround so as to prevent escape.
6. intransitive verb. To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
7. intransitive verb. To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
8. intransitive verb. To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
9. noun. a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes

   Synonyms: hedgerow

10. noun. an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement

    "when you say `maybe' you are just hedging"

    Synonyms: hedging

11. noun. any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change

    Synonyms: hedging

12. verb. minimize loss or risk

    "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"

    "hedge your bets"

13. verb. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

    "He dodged the issue"

    "she skirted the problem"

    Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, parry, sidestep, skirt

14. verb. enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges

    "hedge the property"

15. verb. hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge

    "The animals were hedged in"

Synonyms

hedgerow, hedging, circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, parry, sidestep, skirt

Common word forms

hedged, hedger, hedges, hedging, hedgeless

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