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hedgesnounpl. of hedge a physical object that blocks the waythe messenger was confronted with a hedge of spears held aloft by the castle guards barricades, barriers, fences, walls bars, pales, palingsblocks, chains, clogs, crimps, deterrents, drags, embarrassments, encumbrances, handicaps, hindrances, hurdles, impediments, inhibitions, interferences, lets, obstacles, obstructions, roadblocks, stops, stumbling blocks, trammelsfetters, hobbles, manacles, shacklesconstraints, curbs, restraints, snagsbuffers, bulwarks, bumpers, cushions, dams, fenders, pads, ramparts doors, doorways, entrances, entranceways, entries, entryways, gates, portalsbreaks, gaps, passes to avoid giving a definite answer or positionkept hedging whenever asked for an opinion on the matter equivocates, fudges, pussyfoots, tergiversates, waffles, weasels flip-flops, yo-yoesdodges, ducks, eludes, eschews, evades, shakes, shirks, shuns, sidesteps, skirtsbypasses, circumventscavils, quibblesstraddles beats around the bush(or beats about the bush), hems and haws, straddles the fence to close or shut in by or as if by barriersthe prison was hedged by a high stone wall boxes (in), cages, closets, coops (up), corrals, encages, encases, encloses(also incloses), envelops, fences (in), hems (in), houses, immures, includes, mews (up), pens, walls (in) bounds, circumscribes, confines, contains, limits, restrictsencircles, encompasses, enfolds, enframes, enlaces, frames, rings, surroundsarmors, cocoons, encapsulates, encapsules, encysts, ensheathes, enspheres, enwombs |