Past tense of stitch
regular verb
The past tense of stitch is stitched. The past participle is also stitched.
Forms of stitch
| Base form (V1) | stitch /stɪt͡ʃ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | stitched |
| Past participle (V3) | stitched |
| Present participle | stitching /ˈstɪt͡ʃɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | stitches |
Stitched in a sentence
- Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph
- Whereas liturgically, in the sacramental narrative of the Cross, worshippers are stitched into a salvation story, cinema spectators are stitched into a narrative in which the ordinary guy overcomes the Other in an extraordinary situation.2011, Steve Nolan, Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion, →ISBN
- The community pieced together a quilt using a square stitched in each household.From the entry piece together
- I stitched together an outfit from a bunch of old clothes.From the entry stitch together
- You stitched those subpar ingredients together into a fine meal.From the entry stitch together
Meaning of stitch
- noun A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
- noun A single pass of a surgical suture (to sew the edges of a wound together).
- noun An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
Questions about the past tense of stitch
- What is the past tense of stitch?
- The past tense of stitch is stitched.
- What is the past participle of stitch?
- The past participle of stitch is stitched.
- Is stitch a regular or irregular verb?
- Stitch is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stitch (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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