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HEDGED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hedged mean?
• HEDGED (adjective)
The adjective HEDGED has 1 sense:
1. evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement
Familiarity information: HEDGED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement
Synonyms:
hedged; weasel-worded
Similar:
qualified (limited or restricted; not absolute)
Context examples
We are hedged in with difficulties, all of us, my poor old fellow; but, please God, we shall come through them all right.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Buck did not attack, but circled him about and hedged him in with friendly advances.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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