Synonyms for Hem:

n.
• artifact
- hem
• border
- out skirt
- out-skirt
- selvages
• boundary
- be ginning
- be-ginning
- ex tent
- ex tents
- ex-tent
- ex-tents
- line demarcation
- out posts
- out-posts
• cough
- croup
- croups
- frog in throat
- tickle in throat
• edge
- BERMS
- Berm
- molding
- strands
• fringe
- out side
- out sides
- out skirts
- out-sides
- out-skirts
- rickracks
• margin
- elbowrooms
v.
• begird
- be gird
- be girded
- be girding
- be girds
- be girt
- be sets
- be setting
- be-gird
- be-girded
- be-girding
- be-girds
- be-girt
- be-set
- be-sets
- be-setting
• bind
- enfettered
- enfettering
- enfetters
- hitched on
- hitches on
- hitching on
- hooking on
- hooking up
- hooks on
- hooks up
- pegged down
- pegging down
- pegs down
- pinned down
- re strain
- re strained
- re straining
- re strains
- re strict
- re-strain
- re-strained
- re-straining
- re-strains
- re-strict
- tacked on
- tacking on
- tacks on
• border
- am adjacent to
- are adjacent to
- art adjacent to
- being adjacent to
- de fine
- de fined
- de fines
- de fining
- de lineate
- de lineated
- de-fine
- de-fined
- de-fines
- de-fining
- de-lineate
- de-lineated
- is adjacent to
- marks off
- out line
- out lined
- out lines
- out lining
- out-line
- out-lined
- out-lines
- out-lining
- sets off
- sur rounded
- sur rounding
- sur-rounded
- sur-rounding
- was adjacent to
- wast adjacent to
- were adjacent to
- wert adjacent to
• cage
- closes in
- cooping up
- coops up
- fences in
- fencing in
- shuts in
- shutting in
• cough
- cleared throat
- clearing throat
- clears throat
- spat up
- spits up
- spitted up
- spitting up
• envelop
- co oped
- co oping
- co-oped
- co-oping
- in vest
- in vested
- in vests
- in-vest
- in-vested
- in-vesting
- in-vests
- over laid
- over lay
- over laying
- over lays
- over spreading
- over spreads
- over-laid
- over-lay
- over-laying
- over-lays
- over-spread
- over-spreading
- over-spreads
- super impose
- super imposed
- super imposes
- super imposing
- super-impose
- super-imposes
- super-imposing
• fence
- Mured
- de fend
- de fended
- de fending
- de fends
- de-fend
- de-fended
- de-fending
- de-fends
- muring
• fold
- dog ear
- dog eared
- dog earing
- dog ears
- dog-earing
- dog-ears
- dogear
- dogeared
- dogearing
- dogears
- doubles over
- doubling over
- inter twine
- inter twines
- inter twining
- inter-twine
- inter-twines
- inter-twining
- over lap
- over lapped
- over lapping
- over laps
- over-lap
- over-lapped
- over-lapping
- over-laps
- plicates
- plicating
- re plicate
- re plicated
- re plicates
- re plicating
- re-plicate
- re-plicated
- re-plicates
- re-plicating
- ruched
- ruches
- tele scoped
- tele scoping
- tele-scoped
- tele-scoping
- turned under
- turning under
- turns under
• join
- am at hand
- am close to
- am contiguous to
- am hand
- are at hand
- are close to
- are contiguous to
- are hand
- art at hand
- art close to
- art contiguous to
- art hand
- be hand
- being at hand
- being close to
- being contiguous to
- being hand
- ex tend
- ex tended
- ex tending
- ex tends
- ex-tend
- ex-tended
- ex-tending
- ex-tends
- is at hand
- is close to
- is contiguous to
- is hand
- lay beside
- lay near
- lay next to
- lied beside
- lied near
- lied next to
- lies beside
- lies near
- lies next to
- lying beside
- lying near
- lying next to
- open in to
- opened in to
- opened into
- opening in to
- opening into
- opens in to
- opens into
- re ached
- re aching
- re-ached
- re-aching
- trenched on
- trenches on
- trenching on
- verged on
- verges on
- was at hand
- was close to
- was contiguous to
- was hand
- wast at hand
- wast close to
- wast contiguous to
- wast hand
- were at hand
- were close to
- were contiguous to
- were hand
- wert at hand
- wert close to
- wert contiguous to
- wert hand
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cuff
edge
environ

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gird
girdle

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beset

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• attach

tack

• begird

be set
hem in

• border

• cough

Hacked
Hacking
Hawked
clear throat
hawking
spit up

• join

• round

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Independent
- Proper noun, singular
  groans.
Other Related
- Noun, singular or mass
  skirt, skirts.

What are the hypernyms for Hem?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
border, boundary, edge, margin, outline, perimeter, rim, seam.

What are the hyponyms for Hem?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for hem (as nouns)
- artifact
  edge.
- communication
  vocalization, utterance.
hyponyms for hem (as verbs)
- communication
  let out, utter, let loose, emit.
- contact
  stitch, run up, sew together, sew.

What are the holonyms for Hem?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.

holonyms for hem (as nouns)
- artifact
  material, textile, fabric, cloth.

What are the opposite words for hem?

Hem is a verb which means to sew a folded edge of a piece of cloth, to turn under and stitch the edge or to trap someone or something. It can also be a noun which refers to the edge of a piece of clothing, typically the bottom edge. The antonyms for the word hem include unsew, unravel, release, free, loosen, detach, unfasten, unhook or unfix. These words imply the opposite action of securing or fixing something in place, instead allowing it to move or detach. By understanding the antonyms of hem, we can expand our vocabulary and improve our descriptive language.

What are the antonyms for Hem?

n.
• border, edge
- body
- center
- inside
- interior
- middle

Usage examples for Hem

All of a sudden, I saw that every time she took a step, she turned the hem of her skirt with her heel.

"The Locusts' Years"

Mary Helen Fee

These they finished with an inch-wide hem, featherstitched at the top, Ethel Brown's with yellow silk and Ethel Blue's with blue silk.

"Ethel Morton at Chautauqua"

Mabell S. C. Smith

All men have loved her But none shall touch with his lips Even the hem of her garment.

"The Literature of Ecstasy"

Albert Mordell

Famous quotes with Hem

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Otto von Bismarck
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

Octavia Butler
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Anne Sullivan Macy
We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.

Vince McMahon
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

Adlai Stevenson

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n.

v.

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