1564 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ hˈɛd͡ʒ], [ hˈɛd‍ʒ], [ h_ˈɛ_dʒ]

Similar words for hedge:

• artifact (noun)
• boundary, obstacle, especially one made of plants (noun)
• bramble (noun)
• brush (noun)
• bush (noun)
• circumvent (noun)
• elude (noun)
• enclosure (noun)
• evergreen (noun)
• fence (noun)
• hedge (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• screen (noun)
• shrub (noun)
• tergiversation (noun)
• thicket (noun)
• wager (noun)
• avoid, dodge (verb)
• defend (verb)
• dodge (verb)
• enclose (verb)
• equivocate (verb)
• evade (verb)
• fence (verb)
• fudge (verb)
• hesitate (verb)
• insure (verb)
• pen (verb)
• prevaricate (verb)
• protect (verb)
• pussyfoot (verb)
• skirt (verb)
• stall (verb)
• straddle (verb)
• temporize (verb)
• vacillate (verb)
• wager (verb)
• waver (verb)
• weasel (verb)
• other synonyms
• avoid
• bush
• conifer
• defend
• enclose
• equivocate
• hesitate
• other relevant words
• prevaricate
• protect
• pussyfoot
• put-off
• straddle
• other relevant words (noun)

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Hyponyms for hedge

Synonyms for Hedge:

• n.

  •
  • compost,
  • deadhead,
  • feed,
  • cross-pollinate,
  • bonsai,
  • aerate,
  • drill,
  • cross-fertilize,
  • bed out.
  •
  • compass,
  • girdle,
  • gird,
  • open,
  • circle,
  • beset,
  • encompass.
  •
  • envelop,
  • close in,
  • obliqueness,
  • intimate,
  • mince (your) words.
  •
  • retreat,
  • play it safe,
  • skate over/around,
  • shuffle,
  • pussyfoot,
  • take evasive action,
  • clear,
  • have a narrow/lucky escape.
  •
  • save,
  • seek,
  • put in.
  • artifact (noun)
  • hedge,
  • hedgerow.
  • boundary, obstacle, especially one made of plants (noun)
  • enclosure,
  • barrier,
  • quickset,
  • guard,
  • windbreak.
  • bramble (noun)
  • furzes,
  • catch weeds,
  • prickly shrubs,
  • goose grasses,
  • thistle sages.
  • brush (noun)
  • under growths,
  • boscages,
  • under-growth,
  • brushwoods,
  • under wood,
  • under-growths,
  • under woods,
  • under growth,
  • underwoods,
  • under-woods,
  • under-wood,
  • chaparrals.
  • bush (noun)
  • wilds,
  • scrubland,
  • briars,
  • forest,
  • the wild,
  • hinterland.
  • circumvent (noun)
  • circumvent.
  • elude (noun)
  • elude.
  • enclosure (noun)
  • paling.
  • evergreen (noun)
  • pine tree.
  • fence (noun)
  • obstacle,
  • oleander,
  • prickly pear cactus,
  • Russian privet,
  • lilac,
  • yucca,
  • holly,
  • hawthorn,
  • spirea,
  • ocatilla cactus,
  • broom,
  • myrtle,
  • rose,
  • dogrose,
  • honeysuckle,
  • organ-pipe cactus,
  • barberry,
  • California Privet,
  • thornbush,
  • honey locust,
  • Glastonbury thorn,
  • Osage Orange,
  • box,
  • hedge thorn,
  • white willow,
  • rhododendron,
  • hedge laurel,
  • juniper,
  • Washington thorn,
  • jasmine box,
  • boundary,
  • wait-a-bit thorn,
  • mock privet,
  • hydrangea,
  • Russian Olive,
  • hibiscus,
  • azalea,
  • forsythia,
  • camellia,
  • bushes,
  • Japanese Privet.
  • hedge (noun)
  • hedging,
  • parry.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • berlin wall,
  • double meaning,
  • sedge,
  • backstop,
  • sedges,
  • fifty-fifty,
  • Ferns,
  • underwood,
  • thistles,
  • thing,
  • equivocation,
  • thistle sage,
  • Equivoque,
  • Boscage,
  • penitentiary,
  • catch weed,
  • wager,
  • agreement,
  • pen,
  • briers,
  • thicket,
  • bracken,
  • runaround,
  • protection,
  • fern,
  • toss up,
  • tossup,
  • fence,
  • brier,
  • spinney,
  • dingle,
  • evasion,
  • thistle,
  • palings,
  • brushwood,
  • bush,
  • shufflings,
  • fibbing,
  • Spinneys,
  • security,
  • deceptiveness,
  • goose grass,
  • dissimulation,
  • shrubbery,
  • prickly shrub,
  • rail,
  • brush,
  • gorses,
  • chaparral,
  • odds on,
  • screen,
  • equivocality,
  • dingles,
  • outside chance,
  • brackens,
  • gorse,
  • quibbling routine,
  • amphibology,
  • hurdle,
  • coverup,
  • bramble,
  • Nettles,
  • furze.
  • screen (noun)
  • divider,
  • dividers.
  • shrub (noun)
  • Bosket.
  • tergiversation (noun)
  • deceptivenesses,
  • co-lorings,
  • mis representation,
  • dis-simulations,
  • lyings,
  • dis simulations,
  • dis-simulation,
  • co loring,
  • co lorings,
  • dissimulations,
  • double meanings,
  • hedgings,
  • cop outs,
  • Amphibologies,
  • song dance,
  • fibbings,
  • co-loring,
  • quibbling routines,
  • mis-representation,
  • dis simulation,
  • mis representations.
  • thicket (noun)
  • Spinnies,
  • coverts,
  • Spinny,
  • Bosk.
  • wager (noun)
  • fifty-fifties,
  • odds ons,
  • fiftyfifty,
  • outside chances,
  • fifty fifty,
  • fifty fifties,
  • fiftyfifties.

• v.

  • avoid, dodge (verb)
  • jive,
  • be noncommittal,
  • quibble,
  • hem and haw,
  • stonewall,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • flip-flop,
  • shuck,
  • give the run around,
  • beat around the bush,
  • cop out,
  • run around,
  • pass the buck,
  • sidestep,
  • duck,
  • sit on the fence,
  • cop a plea,
  • blow hot and cold.
  • defend (verb)
  • hold bay,
  • re-tain,
  • pre venting,
  • pre serving,
  • with stood,
  • up-holding,
  • fended off,
  • re tains,
  • de-fending,
  • de fend,
  • beats off,
  • with standing,
  • provides sanctuary,
  • holding at bay,
  • de-fends,
  • guards against,
  • provided sanctuary,
  • keeping safe,
  • beating off,
  • holds at bay,
  • de-fend,
  • fighting for,
  • pre-served,
  • re tain,
  • watches over,
  • holds bay,
  • pre vent,
  • pre-serving,
  • de fended,
  • pre-venting,
  • de fends,
  • held at bay,
  • up held,
  • guarding against,
  • pre-vented,
  • with stand,
  • fought for,
  • repels danger,
  • with-stands,
  • pre-serves,
  • pre-serve,
  • up-held,
  • up-holds,
  • up holding,
  • pre-vent,
  • repelled danger,
  • de fending,
  • keeps safe,
  • pre serves,
  • up holds,
  • fights for,
  • up-hold,
  • pre vents,
  • up hold,
  • pre-vents,
  • re-tains,
  • pre served,
  • pre serve,
  • held bay,
  • guarded against,
  • kept safe,
  • providing sanctuary,
  • with-stand,
  • de-fended,
  • repelling danger,
  • with stands,
  • panoplying,
  • holding bay,
  • with-standing.
  • dodge (verb)
  • gotten around,
  • gets out of,
  • shortcircuit,
  • moves to side,
  • putting the move on,
  • give slip,
  • put move on,
  • getting out of,
  • circumlocuted,
  • gets around,
  • gave slip,
  • gave the slip,
  • giving slip,
  • shortcircuiting,
  • gives slip,
  • skipped out on,
  • moved the side,
  • moved side,
  • giving the slip,
  • moving to side,
  • moving the side,
  • moved to side,
  • turns aside,
  • shortcircuits,
  • move side,
  • short circuited,
  • shortcircuited,
  • gives the slip,
  • tergiversed,
  • circumlocutes,
  • skipping out on,
  • moved to the side,
  • moving to the side,
  • puts the move on,
  • juking,
  • gat out of,
  • putting move on,
  • moves side,
  • gotten out of,
  • moving side,
  • tergiversing,
  • moves the side,
  • short circuiting,
  • skips out on,
  • got around,
  • tergiverses,
  • circumlocuting,
  • gat around,
  • move the side,
  • short-circuits,
  • moves to the side,
  • Short-circuited,
  • puts move on,
  • juked.
  • enclose (verb)
  • coop,
  • siege,
  • hinder,
  • immure,
  • obstruct,
  • border,
  • restrict,
  • surround,
  • hem in,
  • edge,
  • ring,
  • cage,
  • block,
  • corral,
  • confine.
  • equivocate (verb)
  • double talked,
  • begged question,
  • flip flopping,
  • sits the fence,
  • gave run around,
  • running around,
  • cloud issue,
  • flip-flopped,
  • sitting on fence,
  • doubletalk,
  • telling white lie,
  • double-talking,
  • flip flopped,
  • giving run around,
  • blow hot cold,
  • sat on the fence,
  • cop plea,
  • ran around,
  • minces words,
  • clouded issue,
  • sat fence,
  • clouds issue,
  • clouding issue,
  • clouded the issue,
  • told white lie,
  • sits on fence,
  • beats around bush,
  • sat the fence,
  • double talking,
  • sate the fence,
  • begged the question,
  • begs question,
  • doubletalked,
  • beating around bush,
  • flipflopping,
  • sate fence,
  • sat on fence,
  • beats around the bush,
  • sitting fence,
  • sitting on the fence,
  • mincing words,
  • tells white lie,
  • begs the question,
  • sate on the fence,
  • runs around,
  • doubletalking,
  • sits on the fence,
  • sits fence,
  • sate on fence,
  • sit the fence,
  • flipflopped,
  • double-talked,
  • sitting the fence,
  • beg question,
  • clouds the issue,
  • gives run around,
  • flip flop,
  • clouding the issue,
  • hem haw,
  • pass buck,
  • begging question,
  • sit fence.
  • evade (verb)
  • sneaked away,
  • keeping distance,
  • slipping out,
  • giving the runaround,
  • snuck away,
  • leads on a merry chase,
  • slips out,
  • kept distance,
  • sneaks away,
  • by passes,
  • slipped out,
  • lead on merry chase,
  • led merry chase,
  • by passed,
  • leads a merry chase,
  • pre-tends,
  • giving runaround,
  • leads merry chase,
  • lays low,
  • de-clines,
  • leading a merry chase,
  • pre tending,
  • de clines,
  • laying low,
  • gives runaround,
  • pre tend,
  • pre-tending,
  • keeps distance,
  • led a merry chase,
  • steered clear of,
  • de cline,
  • led on merry chase,
  • slipt out,
  • by pass,
  • pre tends,
  • steers clear of,
  • gave the runaround,
  • pre-tended,
  • sneaking away,
  • passes up,
  • gives the runaround,
  • leading on a merry chase,
  • lead a merry chase,
  • gave runaround,
  • lead merry chase,
  • by passing,
  • de-cline,
  • leading merry chase,
  • passing up,
  • leading on merry chase,
  • led on a merry chase,
  • leads on merry chase,
  • give runaround.
  • fence (verb)
  • out-wit,
  • out-wits,
  • sur-rounded,
  • out-witting,
  • out wits,
  • sur-rounding,
  • sur rounding,
  • out witted,
  • sur rounded,
  • out witting.
  • fudge (verb)
  • over stating,
  • over stated,
  • over-state,
  • over-stated,
  • over states,
  • over-states,
  • over state,
  • over-stating.
  • hesitate (verb)
  • de bates,
  • de-bate,
  • thinks twice,
  • were reluctant,
  • de bating,
  • is unwilling,
  • wast irresolute,
  • de lays,
  • were unwilling,
  • are unwilling,
  • art irresolute,
  • wast unwilling,
  • thought twice,
  • wert irresolute,
  • de bate,
  • are irresolute,
  • am reluctant,
  • wert unwilling,
  • being unwilling,
  • wert reluctant,
  • is irresolute,
  • de-bated,
  • de-bating,
  • being reluctant,
  • de-lays,
  • art reluctant,
  • de-lay,
  • art unwilling,
  • was irresolute,
  • am irresolute,
  • am unwilling,
  • shies away,
  • holds off,
  • de-bates,
  • was unwilling,
  • are reluctant,
  • were irresolute,
  • shied away,
  • de bated,
  • shying away,
  • de lay,
  • is reluctant,
  • de-laying,
  • de laying,
  • being irresolute,
  • was reluctant,
  • wast reluctant.
  • insure (verb)
  • under writes,
  • in sure,
  • under writing,
  • under wrote,
  • under-write,
  • under written,
  • under-writes,
  • under write,
  • under-wrote,
  • under-written,
  • under-writing,
  • in-sure.
  • pen (verb)
  • fences in,
  • fencing in.
  • prevaricate (verb)
  • in vent,
  • be-lying,
  • mis spoken,
  • mis-represented,
  • in-venting,
  • dis-tort,
  • mis representing,
  • mis speaking,
  • mis speaks,
  • in vented,
  • mis-speaks,
  • be lied,
  • in-vent,
  • mis represents,
  • mis represent,
  • mis represented,
  • mis-speaking,
  • misspoke,
  • in-vented,
  • mis-representing,
  • mis-spoke,
  • mis-spoken,
  • in vents,
  • be lying,
  • dis tort,
  • dis torts,
  • mis-represent,
  • mis spoke,
  • in-vents,
  • mis-speak,
  • phonied up,
  • mis-represents,
  • be-lied,
  • dis-torts,
  • in venting,
  • mis speak,
  • phonies up,
  • phonying up.
  • protect (verb)
  • gave refuge,
  • standing guard,
  • giving refuge,
  • gives sanctuary,
  • stands guard,
  • covered bases,
  • rode shotgun for,
  • Sentineling,
  • riding shotgun for,
  • giving sanctuary,
  • rid shotgun for,
  • go bat for,
  • gives refuge,
  • takes under wing,
  • rides shotgun for,
  • covers all bases,
  • Sentineled,
  • covers bases,
  • covering all bases,
  • covered all bases,
  • took under wing,
  • taking under wing,
  • gave sanctuary,
  • stood guard,
  • cover bases,
  • covering bases.
  • pussyfoot (verb)
  • wert noncommittal,
  • treads warily,
  • playing close vest,
  • being noncommittal,
  • watched one step,
  • played close the vest,
  • treading warily,
  • plays close to the vest,
  • watch step,
  • playing it close vest,
  • play close to vest,
  • watches one step,
  • plays it close the vest,
  • plays close vest,
  • played it close to vest,
  • watching step,
  • plays close to vest,
  • am noncommittal,
  • played it close to the vest,
  • wast noncommittal,
  • playing it close to vest,
  • duck issues,
  • trod warily,
  • played it close vest,
  • play it close to vest,
  • watching ones step,
  • plays it close to vest,
  • play it close the vest,
  • ducked the issues,
  • playing it close to the vest,
  • play close the vest,
  • play close vest,
  • plays close the vest,
  • watch one step,
  • ducking the issues,
  • ducks issues,
  • watching one step,
  • play it close vest,
  • plays it close vest,
  • playing close to vest,
  • is noncommittal,
  • played close to vest,
  • play close to the vest,
  • playing it close the vest,
  • watched step,
  • playing close the vest,
  • ducking issues,
  • watched one's step,
  • ducks the issues,
  • watches one's step,
  • playing close to the vest,
  • was noncommittal,
  • were noncommittal,
  • watches ones step,
  • watch ones step,
  • played close vest,
  • watches step,
  • art noncommittal,
  • played it close the vest,
  • watched ones step,
  • ducked issues,
  • plays it close to the vest,
  • played close to the vest.
  • skirt (verb)
  • de touring,
  • de-toured,
  • de-touring,
  • de tours,
  • de toured,
  • de-tours,
  • de tour,
  • de-tour.
  • stall (verb)
  • drags feet,
  • standing off,
  • took time,
  • drags one's feet,
  • stood still,
  • slowing down,
  • drag one feet,
  • drags one feet,
  • taking time,
  • dragged feet,
  • post-pones,
  • take one time,
  • dragged one feet,
  • takes one's time,
  • dragged one's feet,
  • takes ones time,
  • post pones,
  • dragging feet,
  • taking ones time,
  • stood off,
  • took one's time,
  • dragging one feet,
  • stands still,
  • took ones time,
  • not moves,
  • takes time,
  • takes one time,
  • drags ones feet,
  • drag ones feet,
  • slows down,
  • post pone,
  • taking one time,
  • took one time,
  • dragging ones feet,
  • stands off,
  • dragged ones feet,
  • played for time,
  • dragging one's feet,
  • take ones time.
  • straddle (verb)
  • be strode,
  • non-committals,
  • be-strid,
  • be striding,
  • be-strides,
  • be-striding,
  • be strides,
  • be-stridden,
  • noncommittals,
  • be strid,
  • be stridden,
  • be-strode,
  • non committals,
  • be-stride,
  • be stride,
  • noncommittaled,
  • noncommittaling,
  • non committal.
  • temporize (verb)
  • stalling for time,
  • stalls for time,
  • stalled for time.
  • vacillate (verb)
  • ran hot and cold,
  • ran hot cold,
  • running hot cold,
  • yo-yoing,
  • pussyfooted around,
  • were indecisive,
  • fence-straddles,
  • fence straddles,
  • was indecisive,
  • yo yos,
  • changes mind,
  • pussyfoots around,
  • runs hot cold,
  • whiffles,
  • fencestraddled,
  • yo-yoed,
  • art indecisive,
  • changing mind,
  • yoyoed,
  • fencestraddle,
  • yo yo,
  • run hot cold,
  • changed mind,
  • fence straddling,
  • wast indecisive,
  • runs hot and cold,
  • yo yoed,
  • is indecisive,
  • yoyos,
  • yo yoing,
  • being indecisive,
  • yoyoing,
  • pussyfooting around,
  • fencestraddles,
  • shilly shally,
  • fence-straddled,
  • are indecisive,
  • fence straddled,
  • fence straddle,
  • wert indecisive,
  • fencestraddling.
  • wager (verb)
  • play market,
  • shoots works,
  • puts line,
  • putting on line,
  • played market,
  • putting on the line,
  • puts on line,
  • lays a wager,
  • laying a wager,
  • putting the line,
  • spec'ing,
  • lay wager,
  • playing the market,
  • laid wager,
  • put on line,
  • shoots the works,
  • laying wager,
  • put the line,
  • shooting the works,
  • specced,
  • shoot works,
  • putting line,
  • spec'd,
  • lays wager,
  • shooting works,
  • shot the works,
  • takes action,
  • playing market,
  • specing,
  • played the market,
  • laid a wager,
  • speccing,
  • took action,
  • plays the market,
  • shot works,
  • taking action,
  • puts the line,
  • puts on the line,
  • put line,
  • plays market.
  • waver (verb)
  • being unable to decide,
  • de liberated,
  • were unable decide,
  • de-liberate,
  • de liberate,
  • am unable decide,
  • de-liberating,
  • de liberating,
  • dilly dally,
  • de liberates,
  • wert unable to decide,
  • be unable decide,
  • were unable to decide,
  • wast unable decide,
  • are unable to decide,
  • are unable decide,
  • wert unable decide,
  • was unable to decide,
  • is unable to decide,
  • was unable decide,
  • being unable decide,
  • wast unable to decide,
  • is unable decide,
  • de-liberates,
  • art unable decide,
  • art unable to decide,
  • de-liberated,
  • am unable to decide.
  • weasel (verb)
  • dancing around issue,
  • worms one's way out of,
  • worming one way out of,
  • dance around issue,
  • worm ones way out of,
  • worm one way out of,
  • wormed ones way out of,
  • danced around issue,
  • dances around issue,
  • wormed one way out of,
  • worming one's way out of,
  • wormed way out of,
  • worm way out of,
  • worming ones way out of,
  • danced around an issue,
  • dancing around an issue,
  • worming way out of,
  • tap danced,
  • dances around an issue,
  • worms one way out of,
  • worms way out of,
  • wormed one's way out of,
  • worms ones way out of.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • invest,
  • waffle,
  • euphemize,
  • gnome,
  • implicature,
  • fount,
  • circumlocution,
  • periphrasis,
  • undercapitalize,
  • pay into,
  • reticent,
  • pump into,
  • espalier,
  • en passant,
  • telegraph,
  • arbor,
  • weasel word,
  • uncommunicative,
  • swing set,
  • recapitalize,
  • provide against,
  • unstated,
  • polytunnel,
  • wishing well,
  • latticework,
  • pergola,
  • defend,
  • trellis,
  • insinuate,
  • plow back,
  • bird bath,
  • mealy-mouthed,
  • grotto,
  • water fountain.
  •
  • implicit,
  • lock up,
  • lattice,
  • childproof,
  • begird,
  • euphemism,
  • prevarication,
  • maze,
  • underwrite,
  • speculate,
  • encircle,
  • imply,
  • hint,
  • hem,
  • plow into,
  • tergiversation,
  • oblique,
  • topiary,
  • fountain,
  • veiled.
  •
  • convey,
  • implication,
  • get at,
  • briar.
  •
  • lock in,
  • put into,
  • roll over,
  • ambiguity.
  •
  • broad.
  •
  • sink.
  •
  • close,
  • miss.
  •
  • spread.
  • avoid
  • dodge.
  • bush
  • shrub.
  • conifer
  • evergreen.
  • defend
  • Wars,
  • guard against,
  • Garrisoned,
  • care for,
  • watched over,
  • cared for,
  • look after,
  • watching over,
  • looks after,
  • keep safe,
  • repel danger,
  • ward off,
  • looked after,
  • Bulwarking,
  • fight for,
  • watch over,
  • retain,
  • hold at bay,
  • cares for,
  • Housed,
  • fending off,
  • Bulwarked,
  • Garrisoning,
  • panoplied,
  • looking after,
  • Warred,
  • fortify,
  • provide sanctuary,
  • beat off.
  • enclose
  • shut in,
  • encasing,
  • wall in,
  • block off,
  • encases,
  • locking up,
  • blockading,
  • locking in,
  • closing in,
  • enshrouded,
  • locked in,
  • encase,
  • interning,
  • mew,
  • locked up,
  • enclosed,
  • closed in,
  • interned,
  • sets apart,
  • Mures,
  • setting apart,
  • environ,
  • Mure,
  • box up,
  • fence off,
  • set apart,
  • blockaded,
  • fenced off,
  • locks up.
  • equivocate
  • covers up,
  • begging the question,
  • beg,
  • covered up,
  • beg the question,
  • jived,
  • jiving,
  • cloud the issue,
  • mince words,
  • lied,
  • covering up,
  • beating around the bush,
  • give run around,
  • jives,
  • flipflop,
  • flip-flopping,
  • minced words,
  • tell white lie,
  • cover up.
  • hesitate
  • think twice,
  • pulls back,
  • be irresolute,
  • dithering,
  • Stammered,
  • Hesitated,
  • shy away,
  • pull back,
  • stutter,
  • thinking about,
  • pulling back,
  • be reluctant,
  • thought about,
  • be unwilling,
  • hold off,
  • think about,
  • dithered,
  • Floundered,
  • scruple,
  • pulled back,
  • thinking twice,
  • thinks about,
  • sit on fence.
  • Other relevant words:
  • waver,
  • filibustered,
  • tergiverse,
  • Whiffled,
  • yo-yo,
  • take action,
  • move to side,
  • darking,
  • tap dancing,
  • lay low,
  • beat around bush,
  • weasel,
  • get out of,
  • feinting,
  • shoot the works,
  • By-pass,
  • shillyshally,
  • pass up,
  • fenced in,
  • circumlocute,
  • sneak away,
  • specs,
  • Gamed,
  • Filibustering,
  • Whiffling,
  • short circuits,
  • pussyfoot around,
  • fencing,
  • fence-straddle,
  • by-passed,
  • vacillate,
  • got out of,
  • fence-straddling,
  • Specking,
  • lurch,
  • Burking,
  • by-passing,
  • Burkes,
  • temporize,
  • Juke,
  • Shying,
  • skirt,
  • taking one's time,
  • stand still,
  • turned aside,
  • not move,
  • laid low,
  • stand off,
  • shies,
  • drag one's feet,
  • be indecisive,
  • turn aside,
  • detouring,
  • getting around,
  • plays for time,
  • fence in,
  • feinted,
  • Whiffle,
  • by-passes,
  • drag feet,
  • feint,
  • prevaricate,
  • slip out,
  • Jukes,
  • gaming,
  • Parried,
  • shakes off,
  • turning aside,
  • hesitate,
  • Short-circuiting,
  • change mind,
  • play for time,
  • lead on a merry chase,
  • slowed down,
  • insure,
  • welsh,
  • put on the line,
  • Adventured,
  • spec,
  • Cinched,
  • Walling,
  • Railed,
  • detoured,
  • burked,
  • stall,
  • standing still,
  • out wit,
  • run hot and cold,
  • evade,
  • slow down,
  • YOYO,
  • equivocate,
  • playing for time,
  • darked,
  • specd,
  • not moved,
  • short-circuit,
  • keep distance,
  • Cinching,
  • give the runaround,
  • passed up,
  • be unable to decide,
  • take time,
  • burke,
  • lay a wager,
  • protect,
  • steer clear of,
  • dance around an issue,
  • give the slip,
  • shake off,
  • worm one's way out of,
  • yo-yos,
  • walled,
  • Adventuring,
  • specked,
  • straddle,
  • Girdled,
  • skip out on,
  • Short circuit,
  • tergiversate,
  • enclose,
  • put the move on,
  • move to the side,
  • play the market,
  • not moving,
  • running hot and cold,
  • fudge,
  • steering clear of,
  • lurching,
  • overstate,
  • take one's time,
  • get around.
  • prevaricate
  • misspeaking,
  • Misspeak,
  • misspoken,
  • misspeaks,
  • phony up.
  • protect
  • Sentinelled,
  • shotgunning,
  • cover all bases,
  • stand guard,
  • take under wing,
  • shotgunned,
  • give sanctuary,
  • Sentinelling,
  • shotgun,
  • Shotguns,
  • give refuge,
  • ride shotgun for,
  • fend.
  • pussyfoot
  • watching one's step,
  • Tiptoes,
  • tread warily,
  • slinks,
  • snuck,
  • watch one's step,
  • tiptoeing,
  • play it close to the vest,
  • Slank,
  • duck the issues,
  • tiptoed.
  • put-off
  • put off.
  • straddle
  • Bestriding,
  • non-committal,
  • bestrides,
  • bestrid,
  • Bestridden,
  • bestride,
  • Bestrode.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • exception,
  • linger,
  • high-water mark,
  • take precautions,
  • yield,
  • overreach,
  • bourn,
  • double-talk,
  • starting point,
  • beat,
  • specialness,
  • artifice,
  • barricade,
  • set up,
  • cession,
  • outsmart,
  • waste time,
  • trick,
  • waiver,
  • carefulness,
  • besiege,
  • delimitation,
  • starting line,
  • circumscription,
  • limitation,
  • breakoff point,
  • modification,
  • safeness,
  • avoid,
  • railing,
  • bar,
  • fake,
  • circumspection,
  • shy,
  • shrubs,
  • Haver,
  • swerve,
  • nit-pick,
  • coverage,
  • balance,
  • stay,
  • outwit,
  • hesitation,
  • sheer off,
  • flatter,
  • regardfulness,
  • equalize,
  • square,
  • partition,
  • grant,
  • determinant,
  • stint,
  • restriction,
  • palter,
  • nitpick,
  • shun,
  • hedge in,
  • shit,
  • cumbersome,
  • troublesome,
  • haw,
  • specification,
  • abate,
  • judiciousness,
  • prohibitive,
  • interrupt,
  • reef,
  • alter,
  • buoyant,
  • set back,
  • concede,
  • oppose,
  • stonewalling,
  • wangle,
  • boundary condition,
  • hold over,
  • guardedness,
  • discipline,
  • imprison,
  • manipulate,
  • procrastinate,
  • picket,
  • stalling,
  • counterpoise,
  • ceiling,
  • cutoff,
  • line,
  • recoil,
  • unaccommodating,
  • beat about the bush,
  • limen,
  • interconnected,
  • mindfulness,
  • loiter,
  • separate,
  • line of demarcation,
  • escape,
  • cover plate,
  • dishearten,
  • beat around,
  • threshold,
  • limit,
  • allowance,
  • step aside,
  • coppice,
  • counterbalance,
  • inclose,
  • contravene,
  • make sure,
  • Circumvallation,
  • modify,
  • finish,
  • shirk,
  • outbalance,
  • start,
  • rail in,
  • qualification,
  • brake,
  • exemption,
  • defense,
  • concession,
  • postpone,
  • adjust,
  • pale,
  • thriving,
  • leaven,
  • uncooperative,
  • underbrush,
  • subterfuge,
  • interface,
  • mislead,
  • circumscribe,
  • douse,
  • neutralize,
  • cutoff point,
  • give and take,
  • unified,
  • cautiousness,
  • matching,
  • march,
  • mental reservation,
  • thoroughness,
  • deliberateness,
  • dawdle,
  • foot-dragging,
  • beleaguer,
  • dam up,
  • scant,
  • reservation,
  • manoeuvre,
  • deadline,
  • clear the decks,
  • boggle,
  • inconvenient,
  • patent,
  • run-around,
  • in luck,
  • twin,
  • take steps,
  • horseshit,
  • end,
  • provide for,
  • narrow,
  • heed,
  • Compense,
  • belay,
  • dam,
  • planting,
  • move,
  • contain,
  • low-water mark,
  • soften,
  • straiten,
  • regulate,
  • prosperous,
  • copse,
  • diminish,
  • play safe,
  • redeem,
  • side-step,
  • shrink,
  • boundary line,
  • wile,
  • be obstructive,
  • condition,
  • regulate by,
  • deflect,
  • obstructionism,
  • adjust to,
  • put-off,
  • pick nits,
  • Oppilative,
  • dip,
  • weasel out,
  • Procrastinating,
  • put over,
  • ruse,
  • specialize,
  • time allotment,
  • stratagem,
  • draw the line,
  • term,
  • Mete,
  • confound,
  • deceive,
  • baffling,
  • calculation,
  • shelve,
  • Encage,
  • flurry,
  • assuage,
  • dither,
  • skirting,
  • heedfulness,
  • terminus,
  • bulkhead in,
  • bulwark,
  • about the bush,
  • qualify,
  • palisade,
  • cover,
  • stall for time,
  • obstructive,
  • prudence,
  • choplogic,
  • cut-off,
  • bicker,
  • prepare,
  • duplicate,
  • disconcert,
  • choke off,
  • defer,
  • Forelay,
  • cook,
  • extenuating circumstances,
  • grain of salt,
  • remit,
  • floor,
  • bullshit,
  • contrary,
  • turn off,
  • extremity,
  • undergrowth,
  • moderate,
  • bolt,
  • frontier,
  • rich,
  • register,
  • obscure,
  • dally,
  • handle,
  • copyright,
  • quickset hedge,
  • intercept,
  • stop,
  • fend off,
  • salvo,
  • balustrade,
  • mark,
  • Countervallation,
  • enceinte,
  • strike a balance,
  • outfox,
  • confuse,
  • make up for,
  • around the bush,
  • corresponding,
  • reduce,
  • box in,
  • herons,
  • soft-soap,
  • give in,
  • temper,
  • delay,
  • indemnify,
  • in good case,
  • fortunate,
  • restrain,
  • collateral security,
  • placate,
  • pull away,
  • awkward,
  • caution,
  • countervail,
  • atone,
  • terminal date,
  • prepare for,
  • give the run-around,
  • sweet-talk,
  • bilk,
  • border line,
  • limiting factor,
  • lucky,
  • block up,
  • procrastination,
  • mystify,
  • solicitude,
  • special case,
  • gingerliness,
  • cavil,
  • compensate,
  • split hairs,
  • discretion,
  • collective noun,
  • target date,
  • meddlesome,
  • deliberation,
  • shift,
  • flannel,
  • bound,
  • counteract,
  • consternate,
  • falsify,
  • forearm,
  • nullify,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • season,
  • palliate,
  • care,
  • lower limit,
  • pretext,
  • beat about,
  • wall,
  • bewilder,
  • identical,
  • make good,
  • mitigate,
  • equal,
  • coordinated,
  • upper limit,
  • in full,
  • dilly-dally,
  • lock,
  • Canniness,
  • overbalance,
  • compromise,
  • tentativeness,
  • modulate,
  • in high feather,
  • fill up,
  • traverse.

Paraphrases for Hedge:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    hedged.
  • Proper noun, singular
    hedging.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    hedging.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    couverture.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    reciprocating, speculation, couverture, VS, counterparty.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    speculative.

Hypernym for Hedge:

• n.

  • artifact
    shelterbelt, windbreak, privet hedge.

Hyponym for Hedge:

• n.

  • artifact
    fence, fencing.

• v.

  • change
    minimise, minimize.
  • contact
    hem in.