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avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"

a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes

minimize loss or risk; "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"

enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; "hedge the property"

avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"

a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes

A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.

To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.

To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).

To surround so as to prevent escape.

To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.

To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; - sometimes with up and out.

A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.

To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.

To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).

To surround so as to prevent escape.

To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.

To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; - sometimes with up and out.

A fence of bushes or shrubs.

To inclose with a border of bushes or shrubs; encircle; invest.

Evade; skulk.

A thicket of bushes: a fence round a field, etc.

To inclose with a hedge: to obstruct: to surround: to guard.

A fence of growing bushes.

To inclose with a hedge; surround; guard.

To make one bet to offset another; provide a means of escape.

A fence formed by bushes set close together.

A thicket planted round a field, &c., to fence it.

To fence with or separate by a hedge; to surround; to guard.

To hide, as in a hedge; to skulk.

A fence of thorn-bushes or small trees.

To guard or protect; to obstruct; to skulk; to enclose, as with a hedge; to surround for defence.

n. [Anglo-Saxon, German, Icelandic] A thicket of bushes, usually thorn-bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land.

A fence made round grounds with prickly bushes.

prefixed to any word, signifies something mean.