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What does hemmed in mean?

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  1. simple past tense and past participle of hem in
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I know that the two guys were hemmed in by record company restrictions, but this is almost completely mainstream stuff.
More and more life becomes a series of traps where you are hemmed in from all sides.
The sandy beach at Chintheche is one of the best on the entire lakeshore, hemmed in by smooth, elephantine rocks.
When he was not hemmed in by the round of official details, England afforded him that combination in bounteous measure.
His dark patio was hemmed in by a cinder block retaining wall that created a barrier between the 1940s house and the rest of the yard.
The long now-walled-in driveway, up and down which I used to cycle madly, looked dark and narrow and hemmed in as a gully leading into a ghetto.

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