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hemming in

VERB

enclose, restrict

Synonyms

WEAK

begird beset border bound cage circle circumscribe close in confine corral define edge encircle encompass envelop environ fence fringe girdle hedge in immure margin pen rim ring round shut shut in skirt surround verge

Antonyms

WEAK

let go release

Example Sentences

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Enormous ring hunts depended on hemming in the prey and driving it into an ever-tightening circle, ensuring abundant kills for the king and a memorable spectacle for onlookers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

By midday, the display was largely peaceful, with Seattle police officers scattered along the route, hemming in marchers.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2022

It is a form usually written, after all, to take place within a confined space, hemming in the players who strut and fret upon the stage.

From New York Times • May 31, 2020

But it also obscures the future, hemming in our sense of what’s possible, of how we might evolve to actually solve those problems.

From Slate • May 7, 2013

These canyons run back into the mesa seen in the illustration, which in turn forms part of the foothills rising into the range of mountains hemming in the Rio Verde on the east.

From Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 by Mindeleff, Cosmos