sew
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- transitive verb To make, repair, or fasten by stitching, as with a needle and thread or a sewing machine: sew a dress; sew on a button.
- transitive verb To furnish with stitches for the purpose of closing, fastening, or attaching: sew an incision closed.
- intransitive verb To work with a needle and thread or with a sewing machine.
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- Since my early childhood I had been taught to sew, and I had ideas of my own about the way I wanted things made. — Madeleine An Autobiography
- There she learned to bake and cook and manage, to knit, sew, and embroider; also to spin and weave, in country places. — The Promised Land
- Then I was made to sew, and then clean and polish his leather. — Kajira Of Gor
- If given a work to play or a piece of embroidery already designed and ready to sew, they would go about playing the piece or embroidering the design with mechanical perfection. — Elvenblood
- You will be taught to cook and sew, and to polish boots and scrub floors. — Mercenaries Of Gor
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- Middle English sewen, from Old English seowian; see syū- in Indo-European roots.
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