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knitting up

knitting up is the present participle and gerund of knit up.

Meaning of knit up

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

Questions about knitting up

What is knitting up the present participle and gerund of?
Knitting up is the present participle and gerund of knit up.

Words near knitting up in the dictionary

  1. knitting one's brow
  2. knitting one's brows
  3. knitting one's eyebrows
  4. knitting pattern
  5. knitting together
  6. knitting up
  7. knitting yoghurt
  8. knitting-needle
  9. knitting-needles
  10. knittings
  11. knittle

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