behedge

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To hedge about; surround with or as with a hedge. transitive
    — [...] 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.
  2. To determine the boundary or limit of; define. transitive
    — Having been spawned in a royal bed — perchance the same in which his great gran'dame Catherine was wont to receive her paramours — he becomes the most powerful of princes — haloed with "that divinity which doth behedge a king" — and all [...]
  3. To surround; beset; plague; hinder. transitive
    — Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions.
  4. To straiten; restrict; constrain; limit. transitive
    — 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; [...]

词形变化

behedges present,singular,third-person behedging participle,present behedged participle,past behedged past

词源

From be- + hedge; compare Old English behegian and Dutch beheggen (“to put a hedge around, behedge”).
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