Word Meanings - HEM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Them Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HEM)

• Bound
• Hem
• surround
• environ
• encircle
• besiege
• beleaguer
• embarrass
• Border
• Limit
• boundary
• brink
• rim
• verge
• brim
• edge
• edging
• band
• hem
• enclosure
• confine
• Encircle
• Surround
• inti
• circumscribe
• compass
• embrace
• gird
• engird
• hem in
• beset
• encompass
• Environ
• in-close
• enfold
• Gird
• belt
• enclose
• engirdle
• girdle
• begird

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HEM)

• Hobble
• limp
• crawl
• creep
• shamble
• Expand
• disband
• unfold
• amplify
• display
• dismiss
• liberate
• discard
• fail
• bungle
• botch
• misconceive
• mismanage
• misconstrue
• Decline
• deviate
• revert
• depart
• recede
• return
• back
• retrocede

Related words: (words related to HEM)

• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• VERGER
  One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. Specifically: -- An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc. Strype. The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• BESIEGER
  One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• EDGELESS
  Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• LEDGEMENT
  See LEDGMENT
• WEDGY
  Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.