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hemmed in
adjective as in cramped
adjective as in enclosed
Strong matches
adjective as in limited
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And while Obama both reflects and reinforces the impetus to realign, the befuddled, hemmed-in GOP seems doomed to decline.
By-and-bye there came a time when the clock looked down through its cracked glass upon the hemmed-in square and saw him not.
Oh God, to be free of all the hemmed-in life—the horror of human tension, the absolute insanity of machine persistence.
In the small hemmed-in hollows, whereto our pathway led, the icy dew clung to one's hair and beard.
There is no land more hemmed-in by mountains, or more poor in its water-supply; more difficult to live in.
He might have been swept overboard after all, and the hunting-party be really hemmed-in at some stockade.
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On this page you'll find 83 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hemmed in, such as: crowded, narrow, packed, small, tiny, and circumscribed.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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