HEMMED

Definition: HEMMED

HEMMED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Hem

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "HEMMED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Crosswords: HEMMED

English words defined with "HEMMED": claustrophobic ♦ hem and haw, hem in. (references)

Specialty definitions using "HEMMED": CLOTH TEARER ♦ hemmed up, HOOKER-LASTER ♦ Othman, Osman ♦ table worker ♦ Utgard. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Mug-Day Hemmed in (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Hemmed in.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	As a priest, the framework of his order inevitably hemmed him in.
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"HEMMED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "HEMMED" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	57.14%	36	57,479
Lexical Verb (past participle)	39.68%	25	69,787
Adjective (general or positive)	3.17%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	63	N/A

Expression using "HEMMED": be hemmed in. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "HEMMED": hemmed-in.
	Ending with "HEMMED": short-hemmed.
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Language		Translations for "HEMMED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		jam i rrethuar (be hemmed in). (various references)

Arabic		‏طوق (band, be hemmed in, belt, besiege, cincture, circle, circumvent, clip, collar, compass, corral, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enfold, entrench, envelop, fret, gird, girdle, hedge, hem, hoop, impale, inclose, include, invest, outflank, ring, round, strap, surround, take off, zone). (various references)

Bulgarian		ограничен съм (be hemmed in), обкръжен съм (be hemmed in). (various references)

Chinese		吊边 (Hem, Hemming). (various references)

Czech		být obklíèen (be hemmed in). (various references)

French		être entouré (be hemmed in), être encerclé (be hemmed in). (various references)

German		säumte (purled), gesäumt (seamy). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"יות מוקף (be hemmed in). (various references)

Hungarian		körülvett (be hemmed in, girded, surrounded), beszorult (be hemmed in, stuck), beékelt (be hemmed in, lockfast, wedged). (various references)

Indonesian		terapit (hemmed in, surrounded, wedged in), berapit (be close to, be hemmed in, be wedged in, jammed), apit (hemmed in, wedged in). (various references)

Korean		조해하�". (various references)

Manx		chemmit (bordered). (various references)

Pig Latin		emmedhay

Russian		быть окруженным (be hemmed in). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uhvatiti porub (be hemmed in), biti porubljen (be hemmed in). (various references)

Spanish		estar encerrado (be cooped up, be hemmed in). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "HEMMED": rehemmed. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"HEMMED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ehmke, hamad, hammada, hamme, hammend, Hammet, hammid, hammudah, Heimel, heme, Hemedi, hemel, hemied, Hemmo, Hemsedal, himmed, hongmid, Mehmedov. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "HEMMED" (pronounced he"md)
3	-e" m d	condemned, fremd, stemmed.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-m-m"
	-2 letters: deem, deme, heed, heme, meed, meme.
	-3 letters: dee, edh, eme, hem, hmm, med, mem.
	-4 letters: de, ed, eh, em, he, hm, me, mm.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-h-m-m"
	+2 letters: hammered, homemade, immeshed, rehemmed.
	+3 letters: shimmered.
	+4 letters: hammerhead, rehammered.
	+5 letters: hammerheads.
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