Definitions for stitches

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stitches stitch

Spelling: [stich]

IPA: /stɪtʃ/

Stitches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in stitches (cehisstt).

Definitions for stitches

noun

1. one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
2. a loop or portion of thread disposed in place by one such movement in sewing:
3. a particular mode of disposing the thread in sewing or the style of work produced by one such method.
4. one complete movement of the needle or other implement used in knitting, crocheting, netting, tatting, etc.
5. the portion of work produced.
6. a thread, bit, or piece of any fabric or of clothing:
7. the least bit of anything:
8. a sudden, sharp pain, especially in the intercostal muscles:

Idioms

1. in stitches, convulsed with laughter:

verb (used with object)

1. to work upon, join, mend, or fasten with or as if with stitches; sew (often followed by together):
2. to ornament or embellish with stitches:

verb (used without object)

1. to make stitches, join together, or sew.

Origin of stitches

before 900; (noun) Middle English stiche, Old English stice a thrust, stab; cognate with German Stich prick; akin to stick²; (v.) Middle English stichen t

Examples for stitches

Andy chooses a song from the Broadway stage production of Zorba the Greek, and the fellas are in stitches.

The scene where Linney is placing Hoffman in a head brace will have you in stitches.

The hapless circus clown whose act opened the show soon had Weston and Caroline in stitches.

Thus the stitches of each alternate row will correspond together.

He was lucky his injuries were minor, the worst being the 40 stitches needed for the gash on his leg.

Arrange the fur over all stitches by picking it free with tweezers.

In order that the stitches may draw with ease, they must be taken with great care.

Knitted, in her own stitches and her own symbols, it will always be as plain to her as the sun.

An announcement of this kind, which stitches Palestinian hubs together with trains and buses, would be electrifying.

Examining it carefully, she could see neither seam nor stitches.