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Antonyms for sew
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  1. sewverb

    Synonyms:
    stitch

  2. sewverb

    To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.

    Balls were first made of grass or leaves held together by strings, and later of pieces of animal skin sewn together and stuffed with feathers or hay.

    Synonyms:
    stitch

  3. sewverb

    To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together.

    Synonyms:
    stitch

English Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. sew

    Antonyms:
    break, burst, cleave, lacerate, mangle, rend, rip, rive, rupture, sever, slit, sunder, tear

    Synonyms:
    heal, join, mend, reunite, secure, solder, stitch, unite, weld

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sew, run up, sew together, stitchverb

    fasten by sewing; do needlework

    Synonyms:
    tailor-make, sew together, hoist, stitch, run up, chalk up, tailor

  2. sew, tailor, tailor-makeverb

    create (clothes) with cloth

    "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?"

    Synonyms:
    tailor-make, sew together, customize, customise, custom-make, stitch, run up, cut, tailor, orient

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sewverb

    Synonyms:
    stitch, baste

Editors Contribution4.0 / 1 vote

  1. scissors

    to put together

    he will sew the dress tonight.

    Submitted by rinat on March 27, 2016  

How to use sew in a sentence?

  1. Theresa Lim:

    I had my craft supplies with me so I thought, 'why not try to sew it as a form of photograph,' and after that, I realized I really enjoyed this process so I kept doing it.

  2. Natacha Alpert:

    The fashion and apparel world is still in cut-and-sew in the factories.

  3. Janet Minor:

    I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PCIt plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew.

  4. Patricio Gargollo:

    The easiest way to picture it is like an open book; the bladder is the pages. To close that book up so you don’t see the pages, you sew it back together and put all the muscle and skin on top of that. The backbone of the book is the pelvic bone.

  5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

    The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

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#71334mangle
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