stitch
verb/stɪtʃ/
/stɪtʃ/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they stitch | /stɪtʃ/ /stɪtʃ/ |
| he / she / it stitches | /ˈstɪtʃɪz/ /ˈstɪtʃɪz/ |
| past simple stitched | /stɪtʃt/ /stɪtʃt/ |
| past participle stitched | /stɪtʃt/ /stɪtʃt/ |
| -ing form stitching | /ˈstɪtʃɪŋ/ /ˈstɪtʃɪŋ/ |
- [often passive] to use a needle and thread to repair, join, or decorate pieces of cloth synonym sew
- be stitched (+ adv./prep.) Her wedding dress was stitched by hand.
- A pocket was stitched to the front of the jacket.
- (figurative) An agreement was hastily stitched together (= made very quickly).
- stitch something (up) to sew the edges of a wound together
- The cut will need to be stitched.
Word OriginOld English stice ‘a puncture, stabbing pain’, of Germanic origin; related to German Stich ‘a sting, prick’, also to the verb stick. The sense ‘loop’ (in sewing etc.) arose in Middle English.
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