SEW TOGETHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sew together mean? 

• SEW TOGETHER (verb)
  The verb SEW TOGETHER has 1 sense:

1. fasten by sewing; do needlework

  Familiarity information: SEW TOGETHER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEW TOGETHER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fasten by sewing; do needlework

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

run up; sew; sew together; stitch

Hypernyms (to "sew together" is one way to...):

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

"Sew together" entails doing...:

conjoin; join (make contact or come together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sew together"):

hem (fold over and sew together to provide with a hem)

resew (sew again)

overcast (sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next)

overcast (sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches)

backstitch (do backstitches)

gather; pucker; tuck (draw together into folds or puckers)

finedraw (sew together very finely)

fell (sew a seam by folding the edges)

baste; tack (sew together loosely, with large stitches)

hemstitch (sew with hemstitches)

retick; tick (sew)

cast on (make the first row of stitches when knitting)

cast off (make the last row of stitches when knitting)

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