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hem in someone/something to surround someone or something. They found themselves hemmed in by the crowd. The building was hemmed in by high walls. See also: hem |
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For it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance,--as for instance an empire, rules of an art, a local usage, a religious rite,--to heap itself on that ridge and to solidify and hem in the life. |
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