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knit up

knit up verb: to close up or draw together by knitting.

Verb

knit up (third-person singular simple present knits up, present participle knitting up, simple past and past participle knit up or knitted up)

  1. (transitive) To close up or draw together by knitting.
    • But daily he knit up the fabric that their bad loving had ripped the night before.1976, Helen Yglesias, chapter XV, in Family Feeling, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, page 216
    • To mend a sandal, I removed the damaged parts, and knitted up the rest with the metal tracing spatula.2009, Omi Hatashin, Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944-1972, page 61

Forms of knit up

third-person singular presentknits up
present participleknitting up
past participleknit up
pastknit up
past participleknitted up
pastknitted up

Questions about knit up

What does knit up mean?
Knit up means to close up or draw together by knitting.
What part of speech is knit up?
Knit up is a verb.
What is the past tense of knit up?
The past tense of knit up is knit up.

Words near knit up in the dictionary

  1. knit hat
  2. knit one's brow
  3. knit one's brows
  4. knit one's eyebrows
  5. knit together
  6. knit up
  7. knit yoghurt
  8. knitaholic
  9. knitaholics
  10. knitalong
  11. knitalongs

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