Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to behedge
Participle: behedged
Gerund: behedging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | behedge |
| you | behedge |
| he;she;it | behedges |
| we | behedge |
| you | behedge |
| they | behedge |
Perfect
| I | have behedged |
| you | have behedged |
| he;she;it | has behedged |
| we | have behedged |
| you | have behedged |
| they | have behedged |
Past
| I | behedged |
| you | behedged |
| he;she;it | behedged |
| we | behedged |
| you | behedged |
| they | behedged |
Pluperfect
| I | had behedged |
| you | had behedged |
| he;she;it | had behedged |
| we | had behedged |
| you | had behedged |
| they | had behedged |
Future
| I | will behedge |
| you | will behedge |
| he;she;it | will behedge |
| we | will behedge |
| you | will behedge |
| they | will behedge |
Future Perfect
| I | will have behedged |
| you | will have behedged |
| he;she;it | will have behedged |
| we | will have behedged |
| you | will have behedged |
| they | will have behedged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | behedge |
| you | behedge |
| he;she;it | behedge |
| we | behedge |
| you | behedge |
| they | behedge |
Perfect
| I | have behedged |
| you | have behedged |
| he;she;it | have behedged |
| we | have behedged |
| you | have behedged |
| they | have behedged |
Imperfect
| I | behedged |
| you | behedged |
| he;she;it | behedged |
| we | behedged |
| you | behedged |
| they | behedged |
Pluperfect
| I | had behedged |
| you | had behedged |
| he;she;it | had behedged |
| we | had behedged |
| you | had behedged |
| they | had behedged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would behedge |
| you | would behedge |
| he;she;it | would behedge |
| we | would behedge |
| you | would behedge |
| they | would behedge |
Perfect
| I | would have behedged |
| you | would have behedged |
| he;she;it | would have behedged |
| we | would have behedged |
| you | would have behedged |
| they | would have behedged |
Imperative
| you | behedge |
| we | Let's behedge |
| you | behedge |
Verbs conjugated like 'behedge'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'behedge'
behete,
berede,
enhedge,
hedge,
alledge,
badge,
becudgel,
bede,
bedye,
beetle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle
- forestay, forslow, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hinder, hold up, impede, incommode, obstruct, overslaugh, prevene, prevent, restrict, retard, slow down, stay, thwart, thwarten, umbeset, undermine
- surround; beset; plague; hinder
- hinder
- straiten; restrict; constrain; limit
- curb
- to keep under control
- bind, chasten, check, contain, cork, curb, curtail, dampen, hamshackle, limit, repress, restrain, restrict, shackle, stay, stifle, stop, straiten, suppress, throttle, withhold, withstrain
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From be- + hedge; compare Old English behegian and Dutch beheggen (“to put a hedge around, behedge”).
Sample Sentences
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[...] 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:]
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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 [...] [1905, William Cowper Brann, J.D. Shaw, Brann the iconoclast:]
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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:]
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[...] nor is it necessary to do more than call attention to a few indisputable facts to prove that the public policy he recommends would do little or nothing to ameliorate the hard conditions that behedge the toiling millions. [2005, William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast Volume Three:]
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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:]