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hedgedverbpast tense of hedge to avoid giving a definite answer or positionkept hedging whenever asked for an opinion on the matter equivocated, fudged, pussyfooted, tergiversated, waffled, weaseled flip-flopped, yo-yoeddodged, ducked, eluded, eschewed, evaded, shirked, shook, shunned, sidestepped, skirtedbypassed, circumventedcaviled(or cavilled), quibbledstraddled beat around the bush(or beat about the bush), hemmed and hawed, straddled the fence to close or shut in by or as if by barriersthe prison was hedged by a high stone wall boxed (in), caged, closeted, cooped (up), corralled, encaged, encased, enclosed(also inclosed), enveloped, fenced (in), hemmed (in), housed, immured, included, mewed (up), penned, walled (in) bounded, circumscribed, confined, contained, limited, restrictedencircled, encompassed, enfolded, enframed, enlaced, framed, ringed, surroundedarmored, cocooned, encapsulated, encapsuled, encysted, ensheathed, ensphered, enwombed |