enhedge

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verb

To surround as if with a hedge.

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Meanings

verbenhedge (third-person singular simple present enhedges, present participle enhedging, simple past and past participle enhedged)

present singular third person enhedges · participle present enhedging · participle past enhedged · past enhedged

  1. To surround as if with a hedge.

    These, all these thither brought; and their young boyes / And frightfull matrons making wofull noise, / In heaps enhedg'd it.

    1632, John Vicars, The XII Aeneids of Virgil

Origin

From en- + hedge.

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APA

enhedge. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enhedge

MLA

“enhedge.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enhedge. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enhedge,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enhedge.

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