sewed

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sew

(sō)

v. sewed, sewn (sōn) or sewed, sew·ing, sews

v.tr.

1. To make, repair, or fasten by stitching, as with a needle and thread or a sewing machine: sew a dress; sew on a button.

2. To furnish with stitches for the purpose of closing, fastening, or attaching: sew an incision closed.

v.intr.

To work with a needle and thread or with a sewing machine.

Phrasal Verb:

sew up Informal

1. To complete successfully: Our team has sewn up the championship.

2. To gain complete control of; monopolize.

3. To make sure of: campaign strategists who were trying to sew up the election results.

[Middle English sewen, from Old English seowian; see syū- in Indo-European roots.]

sew′a·ble adj.

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Adj.

sewed - fastened with stitches

sewn, stitched

seamed - having or joined by a seam or seams

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Polly listened with interest while she sewed diligently, occasionally permitting her eyes to study the elegant intricacies of Miss Perkins' dress, for that young lady sat like a statue, quirking her delicate fingers, and accomplishing about two stitches a minute.

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Never were hands more exquisite than hers, and it was a joy to look at them when she threaded her needle or adjusted her gold thimble to her taper middle finger as she sewed away on the little night-drawers or fashioned a bodice or a bib.

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So Dorothy took a needle and thread, and as fast as Oz cut the strips of silk into proper shape the girl sewed them neatly together.

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"Tom, you didn't have to undo your shirt collar where I sewed it, to pump on your head, did you?

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Her eyes were two silver suspender-buttons cut from a pair of the Magician's old trousers, and they were sewed on with black threads, which formed the pupils of the eyes.

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She had no rest now till she had found out where the King guarded the reel, and then she made some little white shirts, and, as she had learnt from her witch-mother, sewed an enchantment in each of them.