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. Bernie Sanders:

   You're either for it or you're against it. No fence-sitting on this one.

2. John Zeggert:

   You had to go out with an instructor for an orientation lap and when he told me if something failed as I was braking at the end of the straight that’d I’d end up in the fence that was the last time I did that.

3. Brandon Judd:

   They dug under the fence, unlike most areas along the border, Yuma has some very sandy areas that is easy to dig in.

4. Donna Gaylor:

   I liked Susan Collins. I've always admired Susan Collins, often times when Susan Collins voted or spoke on an issue I actually agreed with Susan Collins, but I truly felt that Susan Collins started to fence-sit on some things and waited to see where the wind was blowing, so to speak, where Susan Collins party was going.

5. Paul Rieckhoff:

   Veterans are very often stereotyped into two stock characters: the crying wounded or the guy who jumps the White House fence to get to the President, don't treat us like victims.