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thorough-stitch

thorough-stitch adverb: thoroughly, through to the end.

Adverb

thorough-stitch (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Thoroughly, through to the end.
    • I might also blame him, that having undertaken a resolution (in my judgment, rather brave than rash) to caste himselfe inconsiderately, weake and unarmed, amidst a tempestuous ocean of senselesse and mad men, he should have gone through stitch with it, and not leave the person he represented in the..., vol.1, ch.23

Forms of thorough-stitch

alternative formthrough-stitch
alternative formthoroughstitch

Questions about thorough-stitch

What does thorough-stitch mean?
Thorough-stitch means thoroughly, through to the end.
What part of speech is thorough-stitch?
Thorough-stitch is an adverb.

Words near thorough-stitch in the dictionary

  1. thorotrast
  2. thorough
  3. thorough-
  4. thorough-going
  5. thorough-paced
  6. thorough-stitch
  7. thoroughbass
  8. thoroughbasses
  9. thoroughbrace
  10. thoroughbraces
  11. thoroughbred

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