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To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender.

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        Uso de hem in en inglés
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        The officers close in, trying to hem in Herrera between the two vehicles.
        Reuters
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        The narrow limits of personal gain and personal inheritance rigidly hem in sub-human progress.
        The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture
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        Though scientific facts do not by themselves dictate values, they hem in the possibilities.
        BBC
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        Does she feel a hem in air, or only coldness?
        A monster's notes
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        The rising value of the dollar will also hem in any potential gains, he said.
        Reuters
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        A sort of hem in his nose, and tucks and seams all over his cheeks.
        Mae Madden
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        These hem in a valley of grey sand and shingle, threaded by a greyish stream.
        Among the Tibetans
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        What other owner would ever know how to dip into hem in the proper way?
        The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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        Can you hem in such a territory as that?
        The Frontier in American History
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        However, inflationary risks remain and a political logjam continues to hem in reforms, clouding the economic outlook.
        Reuters
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        Two mountain ranges hem in the valley.
        The Daughter of the Chieftain : the Story of an Indian Girl
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        Spain, therefore, proposed to hem in our growth by giving us the Alleghanies for our western boundary.
        The Winning of the West, Volume 2 / From the Alleghanies to the ...
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        The army also believes the rebels laid mines to hem in civilians as human shields -which the Tigers deny.
        Reuters
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        He was singed, and his cloak was blackened a little along the hem in the back, but he was unharmed.
        Scarlet
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        Perhaps they could hem in the desperado from the front and shoot him down there, as he skirted along the river.
        The Seventh Man
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        Groups of detached buildings hem in the view on each side, and their flags wave with the sky for a background.
        Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22...
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        Hem in a través del tiempo