fence off

present singular third person fences off · participle present fencing off · participle past fenced off · past fenced off

1. To enclose an area within a fence.

   Fenced off from the rest of the island, the Foreign Colony is little more than an American suburb with exotic foliage.

   1983 December 3, Michael Wilson, “The Same Story Embellished”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 11

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   The cutting is fenced off from the main line at the Clifton end, and is, therefore, not observed from main line trains.

   1950 May, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “A Forgotten Junction in Westmorland”, in Railway Magazine, page 330

   Retired teacher Helene Ball won a three-year battle against Derbyshire County Council after it fenced off a 98cm gated gap between her garden and a council car park in April 2023.

   2026 September 22, Ben Mellor, Helen McCarthy, “'Lego-type blocks' anger woman who was fenced in”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2026, retrieved 22 Sep 2026