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Webster 1913 Edition
Unstitch
Un-stitch′
,Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+ stitch
.] To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of;
as, to
. unstitch
a seamCollier.
Webster 1828 Edition
Unstitch
UNSTITCH'
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
unstitch
unstitch
English
Verb
unstitch (third-person singular simple present unstitches, present participle unstitching, simple past and past participle unstitched)
- (transitive) To take out stitches from.
- (transitive, figuratively) To unravel or disunite; to cause to come apart.
- 2007 November 18, Trymaine Lee, “A Symbol of Activism Is at Center of Court Dispute”, in New York Times:
- When racially charged killings in the 1980s unstitched already flimsy race relations in the city, the Slave Theater grew to be more than just a movie house, it became a symbol and center of black activism.
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