fence off

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English

Verb

fence off (third-person singular simple present fences off, present participle fencing off, simple past and past participle fenced off)

  1. To enclose an area within a fence.
    • 1950 May, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “A Forgotten Junction in Westmorland”, in Railway Magazine, page 330:
      The cutting is fenced off from the main line at the Clifton end, and is, therefore, not observed from main line trains.
    • 1983 December 3, Michael Wilson, “The Same Story Embellished”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 11:
      Fenced off from the rest of the island, the Foreign Colony is little more than an American suburb with exotic foliage.

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