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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

knit up en · VERB

Meanings

  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

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knitted up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
knitted up Tense=Past lexicographic
knit up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
knit up Tense=Past lexicographic
knits up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
knitting up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic