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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. 1noun

    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. 2transitive 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. 3transitive verb

    To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.

  4. 4transitive verb

    To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).

  5. 5transitive verb

    To surround so as to prevent escape.

  6. 6intransitive 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. 7intransitive verb

    To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

  8. 8intransitive verb

    To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

  9. 9noun

    a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes

    Synonyms

    hedgerow
  10. 10noun

    an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement

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

    Synonyms

    hedging
  11. 11noun

    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. 12verb

    minimize loss or risk

    "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"

    "hedge your bets"

  13. 13verb

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

    "He dodged the issue"

    "she skirted the problem"

    Synonyms

    circumventdodgeduckeludeevadefudgeparrysidestepskirt
  14. 14verb

    enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges

    "hedge the property"

  15. 15verb

    hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge

    "The animals were hedged in"

Synonyms

hedgerowhedgingcircumventdodgeduckeludeevadefudgeparrysidestepskirt

Common word forms

hedgedhedgerhedgeshedginghedgeless

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