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unstitches

unstitches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unstitch.

Meaning of unstitch

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To take out stitches from.
    Synonyms:
    unpick
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To unravel or disunite; to cause to come apart.
    • 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.2007 November 18, Trymaine Lee, “A Symbol of Activism Is at Center of Court Dispute”, in New York Times

Questions about unstitches

What is unstitches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unstitches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unstitch.

Words near unstitches in the dictionary

  1. unstirringly
  2. unstirs
  3. unstitch
  4. unstitchable
  5. unstitched
  6. unstitches
  7. unstitching
  8. unstock
  9. unstockable
  10. unstockaded
  11. unstocked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unstitches (page history and authors); unstitch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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