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hedgingverbpresent participle of hedge to avoid giving a definite answer or positionkept hedging whenever asked for an opinion on the matter equivocating, fudging, pussyfooting, tergiversating, waffling, weaseling flip-flopping, yo-yoingdodging, ducking, eluding, eschewing, evading, shaking, shirking, shunning, sidestepping, skirtingbypassing, circumventingcaviling(or cavilling), quibblingstraddling beating around the bush(or beating about the bush), hemming and hawing, straddling the fence to close or shut in by or as if by barriersthe prison was hedged by a high stone wall boxing (in), caging, closeting, cooping (up), corralling, encaging, encasing, enclosing(also inclosing), enveloping, fencing (in), hemming (in), housing, immuring, including, mewing (up), penning, walling (in) bounding, circumscribing, confining, containing, limiting, restrictingencircling, encompassing, enfolding, enframing, enlacing, framing, ringing, surroundingarmoring, cocooning, encapsulating, encapsuling, encysting, ensheathing, ensphering, enwombing |