Behedge

Quick meaning: Behedge is a verb meaning (transitive) To hedge about; surround with or as with a hedge.

Meaning

(transitive) To hedge about; surround with or as with a hedge.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To determine the boundary or limit of; define.
2. (transitive) To surround; beset; plague; hinder.
3. (transitive) To straiten; restrict; constrain; limit.

Example Sentences

Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions.

The remaining heirs are therefore not to be defeated by any of the restrictions that behedge the remedies available to the third-party beneficiary of a contract; [...]

[...] so that, though he had neither fixed flag not fixed father to cloud his thought and behedge his landscape, he could still, he used to say, share in the gush about ancestry.

[...] nor is it necessary to do more than call attention to a few indisputable facts to prove that the public policy he recommends would do little or nothing to ameliorate the hard conditions that behedge the toiling millions.

Word Forms

• behedges
• behedging
• behedged

Synonyms for behedge

Depending on context, synonyms include betine, border, enclose, hedge, bound, define.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include enhedge, hedge, betine, hain, beset, hurdle.

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