Synonyms for fence
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1. fenceverb

   To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.

   Synonyms:
   pawn shop, pawn

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1. fence

   Synonyms:
   circumscribe, enclose, protect, elude, parry, stave

   Antonyms:
   open, disenclose, catch, receive, suffer

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1. fence, fencingnoun

   a barrier that serves to enclose an area

   Synonyms:
   fencing, fencing material

2. fenceverb

   a dealer in stolen property

   Synonyms:
   fencing

3. fence, fence inverb

   enclose with a fence

   "we fenced in our yard"

   Synonyms:
   wall, debate, fence in, argue, palisade, surround, contend

4. fenceverb

   receive stolen goods

   Synonyms:
   surround, fence in, debate, argue, wall, palisade, contend

5. fenceverb

   fight with fencing swords

   Synonyms:
   surround, fence in, debate, argue, wall, palisade, contend

6. wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surroundverb

   surround with a wall in order to fortify

   Synonyms:
   surround, palisade, fence in, skirt, circumvent, wall, ring, border, debate, argue, besiege, smother, contend, beleaguer, hem in, environ

7. argue, contend, debate, fenceverb

   have an argument about something

   Synonyms:
   fight, palisade, make do, indicate, consider, turn over, vie, deliberate, deal, postulate, manage, compete, struggle, debate, argue, wall, repugn, grapple, reason, surround, contend, cope, make out, moot, fence in, get by, contest

Matched Categories

1. • Barrier
   • Converse
   • Fight
   • Receive

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1. fencenoun

   Synonyms:
   wall, HEDGE, frame of posts and rails, &c

2. fencenoun

   Synonyms:
   shield, guard, security, defence

3. fenceverb

   Synonyms:
   enclose with a fence

4. fenceverb

   Synonyms:
   guard, fortify, defend

5. fenceverb

   Synonyms:
   practise fencing

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1. fencenoun

   Synonyms:
   pale, palings, palisade, stockade, hurdle, raddle, defense, protection, enclosure

2. fenceverb

   Synonyms:
   defend, fortify, protect, equivocate, evade, parry, shift, prevaricate

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1. List of paraphrases for "fence":

   barrier, wall, closure, fencing, closing, palisade, fences, end, sur, roasting, gate, barrière, close-out, billboard, hurdle

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How to use fence in a sentence?

1. Jeff McNeil:

   The fence is really low, so you dont want to stop there, the best-case scenario is just jump into the net and kind of use it for my protection.

2. Nikolai Beope:

   The first thing a lot of people meet when they hop the fence is the canal, if you go to the canal you see a bunch of homemade floatation devices. It's such a violent gamble, and people are consistently willing to do it.

3. The Terre Haute Police Department:

   At 5 minutes and 52 seconds, the officer points out to a neighbor an opening in the fence where he believes the dogs got out from, the rest of the body camera video depicts officers waiting for a male resident to arrive and officers speaking to him about the animals.

4. The Foreign Ministry:

   This did not happen even during the Cold War, but today, influential forces in the USA, preoccupied with trying to pressure Russia hard, do not stop at anything...They are trying to fence off Americans from Russians with a visa wall, as we've said before, making trips of our citizens to the USA practically impossible.

5. Japhet Mwala:

   There were those who were not able to leave the hostels where the gunmen headed and started firing, i am lucky to be alive, because I jumped through the fence with other students.