Hemmed Synonyms

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Synonyms for Hemmed

surrounded
Surround is defined as to enclose or circle around.
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margined
To be a margin to; border.
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girdled
To surround or bind, as with a girdle
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skirted
To cover with a skirt; to surround.
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sewn
(Obsolete) To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish.
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hedged
To enclose or bound with or as if with hedges.
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fringed
To decorate with or as if with a fringe:
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encompassed
To enclose; envelop:
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enclosed
To surround with a wall, fence, etc.
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edged
To trim or shape the edge of:
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coughed
The definition of cough is to force air loudly, without warning through the opening between the vocal cords.
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confined
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
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circled
To surround.
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bordered
To extend along the edge of; bound
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besieged
To close in on; crowd around
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rung
To surround or encircle with or as with a ring
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girt
To surround, encircle, or enclose
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compassed
To surround; encircle:
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beset
To hem in; surround:
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encircled
To form a circle around; surround:
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Words Related to Hemmed

opened
To remove the wrapping from:
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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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