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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 seam
.
Collier.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unstitch

UNSTITCH'

,
Verb.
T.
To open by picking out stitches.

Definition 2024


unstitch

unstitch

English

Verb

unstitch (third-person singular simple present unstitches, present participle unstitching, simple past and past participle unstitched)

  1. (transitive) To take out stitches from.
  2. (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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