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STITCHED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stitched mean?
• STITCHED (adjective)
The adjective STITCHED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: STITCHED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fastened with stitches
Synonyms:
Similar:
seamed (having or joined by a seam or seams)
Context examples
The cyst is opened, its contents removed, and the edges then stitched to the skin incision.
(Epithelial Marsupialization, NCI Thesaurus)
They are not very wearing, so they'll keep. and Jo stitched away, with a wise nod which set her mother's heart at rest about her for the present at least.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Still his wife sighed, shook her head sorrowfully, and stitched on.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And the little tailor hastened to cut himself a girdle, stitched it, and embroidered on it in large letters: Seven at one stroke!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Accordingly, she polished the tablets, pointed the pencil, bought an immense account-book, carefully stitched up with a needle and thread all the leaves of the Cookery Book which Jip had torn, and made quite a desperate little attempt to be good, as she called it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But I shall not trouble the reader with a particular description of my own mechanics; let it suffice to say, that in six weeks time with the help of the sorrel nag, who performed the parts that required most labour, I finished a sort of Indian canoe, but much larger, covering it with the skins of Yahoos, well stitched together with hempen threads of my own making.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
They adopted Jo's plan of dividing the long seams into four parts, and calling the quarters Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and in that way got on capitally, especially when they talked about the different countries as they stitched their way through them.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It is nothing smaller than the Crocodile Book, which is in rather a dilapidated condition by this time, with divers of the leaves torn and stitched across, but which Peggotty exhibits to the children as a precious relic.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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