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. Henry Louis Mencken:

   A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

2. 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.

3. Jamie Rae:

   Once you get to the other side of the fence you realize that grass is just ichie.

4. John Locke:

   The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

5. Kirstjen Nielsen:

   It's different than a fence in that it also has technology. It's a full wall system, it's a wall. This is what the President has asked us to do. It's part of a system.