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  3. Hemmed

Hemmed Synonyms

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To surround and advance upon
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. hedged
  2. enveloped
  3. enclosed
  4. besieged
To shut in on all sides
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. surrounded
  2. hedged
  3. environed
  4. encompassed
  5. skirted
  6. rung
  7. sewn
  8. margined
  9. girdled
  10. fringed
  11. girt
  12. circled
  13. enclosed
  14. edged
  15. encircled
  16. coughed
  17. compassed
  18. confined
  19. beset
  20. bordered

Hemmed Sentence Examples

  • This force was hemmed in by the enemy.

  • She was again hemmed in.

  • The hemmed in French chivalry then charged through the muddy ground.

  • Tibet is a rugged table-land, narrow as compared with its length, broken up by a succession of mountain ranges, which follow as a rule the direction of the length of the table-land, and commonly rise into the regions of perpetual snow; between the flanks of these lie valleys, closely hemmed in, usually narrow, having a very moderate inclination, but at intervals opening out into wide plains, and occupied either by rivers, or frequently by lakes from which there is no outflow and the waters of which are salt.

  • This the present writer is inclined to doubt, considering that he has received examples of the normal Amblystoma tigrinum from various parts of Mexico, and that Alfred Duges has described an Amblystoma from mountains near Mexico City; at the same time he feels very suspicious of the various statements to that effect which have appeared in so many works, and rather disposed to make light of the ingenious theories launched by biological speculators who have never set foot in Mexico, especially Weismann's picture of the dismal condition of the salt-incrusted surroundings which were supposed to have hemmed in the axolotl - the brackish Lago de Texcoco, the largest of the lakes near Mexico, being evidently in the philosopher's mind.

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Hemmed Is Also Mentioned In

  • claustrophobic
  • hemline
  • pocket
  • rockbound
  • fagoting

Words near Hemmed in the Thesaurus

  • Hemminge
  • Hemofil
  • hemipterous insect
  • hemisphere
  • hemispheres
  • hemispherical
  • hemline
  • hemlock
  • hemmed
  • hemming
  • hemochromatosis
  • hemogenesis
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