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hemming

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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hemming

So I started in on the pile—taking in a dress and hemming a tablecloth—until I realized that half of the projects I didn’t want anymore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Begum, who did not give her first name, told AFP she had been turned away by many factories in Gazipur despite having experience in sewing and hemming.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

She was so thrilled by my interest that she would have handed over anything that fit, and I stayed up late hemming the dress by hand.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

One of the themes that you pull out is that the amendment process, like mending, like hemming, was seen as a part of a natural, long progression of repair, refinement, alteration.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025

But after some hemming and hawing, he growled, “Of course. He’s my child.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs