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enhedge

enhedge verb: to surround as if with a hedge.

Verb

enhedge (third-person singular simple present enhedges, present participle enhedging, simple past and past participle enhedged)

  1. To surround as if with a hedge.
    • These, all these thither brought; and their young boyes / And frightfull matrons making wofull noise, / In heaps enhedg'd it.1632, John Vicars, The XII Aeneids of Virgil

Forms of enhedge

third-person singular presentenhedges
present participleenhedging
past participleenhedged
pastenhedged

Origin of enhedge

From en- + hedge.

Questions about enhedge

What does enhedge mean?
Enhedge means to surround as if with a hedge.
What part of speech is enhedge?
Enhedge is a verb.
What is the past tense of enhedge?
The past tense of enhedge is enhedged.

Words near enhedge in the dictionary

  1. enhearsing
  2. enhearten
  3. enheartened
  4. enheartening
  5. enheartens
  6. enhedge
  7. enhedged
  8. enhedges
  9. enhedging
  10. Enheduanna
  11. enherit

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