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noun | verb fencefence1 /fɛns/ ●●● S2 noun ETYMOLOGYfence1Origin: 1300-1400 defense 1 [countable] a structure made of wood, metal, etc. that surrounds a piece of land: a chain-link fence2[countable] informal someone who buys and sells stolen goods3[countable] a wall or other structure that horses jump over in a race or competition → see also mend (your) fences at mend1 (4), sit on the fence at sit (10) noun | verb fencefence2 verb VERB TABLEfence |
Present | I, you, we, they | fence | | he, she, it | fences | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | fenced | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have fenced | | he, she, it | has fenced | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had fenced | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will fence | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have fenced |
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Present | I | am fencing | | he, she, it | is fencing | | you, we, they | are fencing | Past | I, he, she, it | was fencing | | you, we, they | were fencing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been fencing | | he, she, it | has been fencing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been fencing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be fencing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been fencing |
1[transitive] to put a fence around something2[intransitive] to fight with a long thin sword as a sport3[intransitive + with] to answer someone’s questions in a skilled way in order to get an advantage in an argument4[intransitive, transitive] informal to buy stolen goods from the people who have stolen them, and then sell them to other people for a profitfence in phrasal verb1fence something ↔ in to surround a place with a fence: They fenced the field in with barbed wire.2fence somebody ↔ in to make someone feel that he or she is not free to choose where to go or what to do: As kids we were fenced in by rules and regulations.—fenced-in adjectivefence somebody/something ↔ off phrasal verb to separate one area from another area with a fence: We’ve fenced off the back of the property. |