hem
/hɛm/ verb C2- To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
He/she/it hems · Past hemmed · Past participle hemmed · -ing form hemming
Verb forms
- Base form
- hem
- He/she/it
- hems
- Past
- hemmed
- Past participle
- hemmed
- -ing form
- hemming
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Anne rose to her feet, with clasped hands, the tears still glistening on her cheeks; the dish towel she had been hemming slipped unheeded to the floor.
“Oh, no, for when I had taken out the thread I required, I hemmed the edges over again.”
He spoke to his love and won her there while the cab was hemmed in.
“Hem,” thought Monte Cristo, “he begins to conceal his losses; a month since he boasted of them.”
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