fence off

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.

Translations

enclose an area within a fence

• Belarusian: адгаро́джваць impf (adharódžvacʹ), адгарадзі́ць pf (adharadzícʹ)
• French: clôturer (fr)
• Galician: chantar
• German: abzäunen (de)
• Hungarian: elkerít (hu)
• Indonesian: memagari (id)
• Italian: recintare (it)
• Polish: odgradzać (pl) impf, odgrodzić pf
• Russian: отгора́живать (ru) impf (otgoráživatʹ), отгороди́ть (ru) pf (otgorodítʹ)
• Turkish: çitlemek (tr)
• Ukrainian: відгоро́джувати impf (vidhoródžuvaty), відгороди́ти pf (vidhorodýty)