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hedging

verb , present participle of hedge

Synonyms and Antonyms of hedging

1 to avoid giving a definite answer or position

kept hedging whenever asked for an opinion on the matter

Synonyms of hedging

equivocating, fudging, pussyfooting, tergiversating, waffling, weaseling

Words Related to hedging

flip-flopping, yo-yoing

dodging, ducking, eluding, eschewing, evading, shaking, shirking, shunning, sidestepping, skirting

bypassing, circumventing

caviling (or cavilling), quibbling

Phrases Synonymous with hedging

beating around the bush (or beating about the bush), hemming and hawing, straddling the fence

2 to close or shut in by or as if by barriers

the prison was hedged by a high stone wall

Synonyms of hedging

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)

Words Related to hedging

bounding, circumscribing, confining, containing, limiting, restricting

encircling, encompassing, enfolding, enframing, enlacing, framing, ringing, surrounding

armoring, cocooning, encapsulating, encapsuling, encysting, ensheathing, ensphering, enwombing

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