What is another word for fenced?

Pronunciation: [fˈɛnst] (IPA)

The word "fenced" has several synonyms including enclosed, surrounded, walled, barricaded, guarded and secured. These words depict a certain level of safety and protection that comes with having a barrier around a particular area. Being enclosed suggests being surrounded by a physical boundary or barrier that marks and separates, while surrounded and walled suggest having something around, enclosing or blocking one's view. Barricaded suggests having a barrier that is not easy to penetrate, while secured and guarded suggest being protected or watched closely against threats. All these synonyms for "fenced" have a similar underlying notion of protection and security.

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Usage examples for Fenced

Moreover, the mountain was to be fenced from the risk of profanation by any sudden impulsive movement of the crowd, and even a beast that touched it should be slain by such weapons as men could hurl without themselves pursuing it.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
The poet, consequently, has been forced back into the narrower domain so formally and so rigidly fenced in by rhyme.
"Open Water"
Arthur Stringer
"Take one of the hired men with you," Florence called after him, but he made no answer, and the next moment a mad beat of hoofs once more broke out as the uneasy horses galloped furiously back across the fenced-in space.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss

Famous quotes with Fenced

  • Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
    George A. Smith
  • There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
    William Penn
  • Now I saw in my dream, that the highway, up which Christian was to go, was fenced on either side with a wall, and that wall was called salvation.
    John Bunyan
  • It was ridiculous—he was soaking. I had to get a towel and offer him clothes that he wouldn’t take. I knew immediately that I’d like him; he just had one of those faces. I could see what he’d been like as a boy, probably always fenced off in the electronic penitentiary of a too-fast mind.
    Russell Brand
  • Folk codes of pride and togetherness, pride in both senses, honor, and togetherness. Ring-fenced emotion permitted only at three o’clock for ninety minutes in the sanctuary of the stadium. Can we march that pride out of the gates and into the streets? Can we harness it? Direct it? Use it for something less stymied by white lines and whistles, that could pour from the terraces and into the oak-and-leather chambers, the steel-and-glass towers?
    Russell Brand

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