fenced
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Definitions
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- : a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of vertical posts connected with horizontal sections of sturdy material or materials, as wood, metal, vinyl, or wire, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary: Our garden fence is not high enough to keep the deer out.
- : Informal. a person who receives and disposes of stolen goods.
- : the place of business of such a person.
- : the act, practice, art, or sport of fencing.
- : skill in argument, repartee, etc.
- : Machinery. a guard or guide, as for regulating the movements of a tool or work.
- : Carpentry. a slotted guide used especially with a framing square to lay out cuts on rafters and staircase strings.
- : Archaic. a means of defense; a bulwark.
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fenced, fenc·ing.
- : to enclose by some barrier, establishing exclusive right to possession: to fence a farm.
- : to separate by or as by a fence or fences: to fence off a corner of one's yard; to fence out unwholesome influences.
- : to defend; protect; guard: The president was fenced by bodyguards wherever he went.
- : to ward off; keep out.
- : Informal. to sell to a fence.
- : Nautical. to reinforce by sewing on a grommet or other device.
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fenced, fenc·ing.
- : to practice the art or sport of fencing.
- : to parry arguments; strive to avoid giving direct answers; hedge: The mayor fenced when asked if he would run again.
- : to leap over a fence.
- : Obsolete. to raise a defense.
Phrases
- fence in
- fence with
- mend one's fences
- on the fence
- straddle the fence
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
I am on the fence about an outdoors Thanksgiving involving 20 people the northeast.
That fence looks similar enough to the shimmering green curtains seen in the aurora borealis that scientists thought at least this part of STEVE could be a type of aurora.
Pick up the phone, send a text — or forward this email if you think it could help convince someone who is on the fence about voting.
That includes symptom-based surveillance before travelers board flights and digital fence tracking via cellular signals to ensure their compliance with a 14-day quarantine, he said.
Instead, when we got to the parking lot, he found a place to cross through the fence and, placing his backpack beneath him on the grass, looked up at the stars, silent.
Rows of MRAPs that recall Star Wars vehicles await their fate in fenced yards across the base.
Jackie, photographed in her home's fenced in yard lives in Louisville, Kentucky but frequently visits New Orleans.
So why do they still insist on this enormous, ‘ring-fenced’ aid budget?
Areas that have been fenced to keep out the goats, says Kröpelin, have seen vegetation rebound, and are greener than ever before.
The acreage at Area 13 was fenced off with simple barbed wire.
Chapman turned up a hilly road and they came out on a ridge overlooking the fenced-in track.
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high bulwarks.
He had thought that he was being educated, when in reality he was being held back and fenced off from truth.
At twelve years of age this young marvel danced enchantingly, rode like a riding-master, and fenced to perfection.
There are great palm trees springing out of the platform itself, not fenced in in any way.