fence off

English

Verb

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

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.

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)

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