Crossword-Solution: HEMMED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hemmed | imp. & p. p. | of Hem |
We have 12 clues for the answer “HEMMED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Adjusted a skirt | 1 answer |
| Brought to one's knees, say | 1 answer |
| Companion of hawed | 1 answer |
| Did a tailor's task | 1 answer |
| Did some tailoring, say | 1 answer |
| Edged with stitching | 1 answer |
| Hawed's partner | 1 answer |
| Partner of hawed | 1 answer |
| Pulled one's pants up? | 1 answer |
| Spoke with hesitation | 1 answer |
| Surrounded with in | 1 answer |
| Closed (in) | 5 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EECAZM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HEMMED (5)
Ruggles was then very deeply engaged in the memorable _Darg_ case, as well as attending to a number of other fugitive slaves, devising ways and means for their successful escape; and, though watched and hemmed in on almost every side, he seemed to be more than a match for his enemies.
This hemmed it in so narrowly, and stood so black and dense on either side, and disclosed such imperfect glimpses of the sky above, that, to Hester’s mind, it imaged not amiss the moral wilderness in which she had so long been wandering.
She had abandoned all hope of saving him: she saw him gradually hemmed in on all sides, and, in despair, she gazed round her into the darkness, and wondered whence he would presently come, to fall into the death-trap which his relentless enemy had prepared for him.
Why is it that darkness so magnifies our dangers? By day I would have charged the great banth itself, had I thought it necessary, but hemmed in by the darkness of these silent pits I hesitated before a pair of eyes.
The enclosure had formerly been very extensive, but was now contracted within small compass, and hemmed about, partly by high wooden fences, and partly by the outbuildings of houses that stood on another street.
Quotes with HEMMED (3)
To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.
Is it that my habit of placing myself in the souls of other people makes me see myself as others see or would see me if they noticed my presence there? It is. And once I've perceived what they would feel about me if they knew me, it is as if they were feeling and expressing it at that very moment. It is a torture to me to live with other people. Then there are those who live inside me. Even when removed from life, I'm forced to live with them. Alone, I am hemmed in by multitu…
It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before. He was beyond the reach of all the things that had weighed him down and hemmed him in.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1987–2023).