Home › Words › B › behedgebehedgebehedge · verb — to hedge about; surround with or as with a hedge.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom be- + hedge; compare Old English behegian and Dutch beheggen (“to put a hedge around, behedge”).verbTo hedge about; surround with or as with a hedge.e.g.“[...] 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.” — 1932, Thomas Burke, City of encounters: a London divertissement:To determine the boundary or limit of; define.To surround; beset; plague; hinder.e.g.“Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions.” — 1927, James Branch Cabell, Straws and Prayer-Books:To straiten; restrict; constrain; limit.e.g.“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; [...]” — 1968, Edward Weldon Bailey, Texas law of wills:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.enhedge 87% match — To surround as if with a hedge. vs behedge →hedgy 76% match — Pertaining to or like a hedge. vs behedge →hedgeward 76% match — Toward a hedge. vs behedge →hedging 76% match — The act of one who hedges (in various senses). vs behedge →betined 73% match — Hedged about. vs behedge →betine 72% match — To hedge about; enclose; shut up. vs behedge →hedgingly 72% match — So as to hedge; without making a firm commitment. vs behedge →hedgelike 70% match — Resembling a hedge. vs behedge →