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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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More and more life becomes a series of traps where you are hemmed in from all sides.
I know that the two guys were hemmed in by record company restrictions, but this is almost completely mainstream stuff.
You see why a church hemmed in like this put its burial ground out in the empty fields beyond what would become Russell Square.
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.
The sandy beach at Chintheche is one of the best on the entire lakeshore, hemmed in by smooth, elephantine rocks.

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